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

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

The person they're working with, is going to be the person they'll know more. So if that person leaves, they're going to go - well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.

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.

I believe in strength over lack of weakness.

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

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.