Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.