It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.