How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really really really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

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.

When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you're talking to, but the people that aren't in the room. Everybody else.

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.