All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

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