I think failing is the best way to keep you grounded, curious, and humble. Success is dangerous because often you don't understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you've failed. You have a lot of time to think about it.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

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.

I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.

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

We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business.

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