It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that youd be associated with that kind of incompetence.

The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.

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

The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.