Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.

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.

I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven't totally lost their minds.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.