Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

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

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.

There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

Leadership is hard to train on.

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

When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.