You can throw - and we've seen plenty of these kinds of companies - millions of dollars in advertising for a website or a service, and in the end if it's not useful no one's going to use it.

I try to help founders as much as I can, but so many of us we won't even take meetings with people who still just have an idea, because everyone has an idea.

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

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.

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

I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.

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.