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

Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.

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

You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.