Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role.

Do not be scared of the incumbents.

The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.

I like sarcasm. I like snark.

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

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

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.