Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

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.

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

Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

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

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

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