My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.

When you're building a business or joining a company you have to be transparent, you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.

I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.