I enjoy not being a public company.

There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day