If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial.

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.

Does the logic connect? What are the range of probably outcomes? You want to figure out what those probabilities are and ideally be the House. It's fine to gamble, as long as you're the House. Also, listen to critical feedback, particularly from friends. Generally they will be thinking it but they won't tell you.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

My family fears that the Russians will assassinate me.

It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.