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?

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

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

My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.

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