I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.

I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they’re humble.

There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

If you give people really big jobs to the point that they're scared, they have way more fun and they improve their game much faster.