Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.

Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.

Money is information, like bits.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.