I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill.

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

Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.