Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.