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

Can we imagine the United States without electricity? No, that would be pretty hard. Likewise, we can't really imagine being without an open Internet. The cost would be so grave, so serious.

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

We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way

If you look now, more than ever new entrants, new upstarts, are able to grow so much faster than they could before.

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

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.