The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.

Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself to see your company... through the eyes of the people that you're working through. Through the eyes of the employees, through the eyes of your partners... through the eyes of the people who you're not talking to and who are not in the room.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

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

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.