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

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.