Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.

If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.