Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

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

Don't punk out and don't quit.

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.

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

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