The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

When everyone starts sounding the same, that's when you know the words and phrases have become clichés. Instead of speaking in clichés, I encourage people just to be themselves, let their passion burn brightly, and go work on things they love spending their time on.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

I don't think enough people have accepted that the machines have already taken over. They are patiently waiting for us to catch up with them. Our world is now interdependent with the machines, and more entrepreneurs should be working on the symbiosis between the two entities.