Don't punk out and don't quit.

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating

It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.