Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, "Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world."

The great thing about the Internet is, it's the freest marketplace of ideas that there is.

The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.

The Internet is such a tough marketplace because everyone is a click away from going back to a cat photo, or going back to whatever else they were doing. You have to win them over, and do it quickly, and do it by making something people actually want.

Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.

If I were a snarky Reddit user though, I would say, hypothetically, that that would just be like reading Reddit's Front Page a day later. But I'm not going to go there.

The goal shouldn't be to be the next Silicon Valley (there'll always only be one of those) - it's to be your own startup community.