Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that's at least 10 times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter.

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.

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

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

Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.