If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it.

Not everyone is going to end up being a founder of a company, but the skill of being entrepreneurial, having ideas and going through with them - that skill is so important. Everyone should be imbued with it. Because once you have that, once your brain has been wired for that, all these problems, obstacles, all these things start looking like things you can hack.

The stage of investing that I do is seed stage, so it's really early. Here's a pair of founders who maybe have a prototype. They have a little bit of traction, maybe one employee, tops. At that stage, you really, really can only evaluate a company based on those founders and what they've been able to build. It's very, very team driven.

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite.