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

I don't have a crystal ball, but if you can ever put yourself in a situation where you are indispensable - where you aren't part of what looks like a fad, but you actually are a company, a brand that people trust and go to - at this point, you could put some of the mainstays of tech on anything, right?

You know that Estonia, based largely on how successful Skype was, built by Estonian developers, that was a tenth of the entire country's GDP when eBay bought it. That was like a decade ago, it was f****** Estonia, they were behind the Iron Curtain two decades earlier. They're now pushing for K-12 education in computer science in public schools. They've gotten the message. They know how much value that can bring.

Raise $500 for a thing you care about because you actually get the experience of taking an idea and actually doing it. There are fewer and fewer excuses not to.

I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much innovation.

Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.

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