Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.

If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'what's the party going on right now that I should be going to?

My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.