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

Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.

Infrastructure web services had to happen.

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.

If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn't otherwise accomplish.

People don't want gadgets, they want services.