Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.

Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens.

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

If you have things or are involved with things that turn on, it's going to have code. And there are so many people - let's pick on the historians - even as a historian, let's say I ended up going the road of being a historian, just knowing some basic scripts, any kind of automation would have made me a 10 times better historian because I wouldn't have to sit there changing every file name to "1234" and then "12345." It can have a transformative value.

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?

The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission.

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