Even if it doesn't work out, the experience is so valuable to so many employers that your worst case scenario is, 'Ok, so that was a bust, I'll get a six-figure job at whatever company.' Risk is this outmoded idea - your parents might not understand that, but taking these types of risks doesn't have a downside.

You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

We've had customers from the beginning. The reason people use Dropbox is because they really love it. We think more about who is going to be competing with what we are going to be doing, not with where we started.