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.

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

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

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

I like sarcasm. I like snark.

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.

I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you're doing and talk to me right now.