An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.

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

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.