Building a product is easy. But building the company that builds the product is hard.

Don't let other people distract what you're doing. There's always haters.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.

I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now its down to eight.

Hire the best people you can find. This was kind of easy in the early days of foursquare - we hired our friends who were really passionate about the stuff they were building. We have a superstar team not just because their resumes are so strong, but because they've been passionate, thinking about and tinkering in this space forever. Those are the people you want to surround yourself with.

Do what you love and the rest will come.