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

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur... Eventually

It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.

When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.