No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.

The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.

People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, 'Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.'

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

The most important thing is to get on the right horse.