A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

We've changed our internal motto from "Move fast and break things" to "Move fast with stable infrastructure."

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

If you think about companies that were built in Silicon Valley, a lot of them early on were chip companies. And now the companies that are there, like Apple, are much more successful than any of the chip companies were.

If there is a bug in your code than you have to drop everything you're doing and go fix it.