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.

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

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur... Eventually

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.

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'