The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous.

Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.

It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

Learning to code is the single best thing anyone can do to get the most out of the amazing future in front of us.

I enjoy not being a public company.

Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi.