So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. Companies are set up so that people judge each other on failure. I am not going to get fired if we have a bad year. Or a bad five years. I don’t have to worry about making things look good if they’re not. I can actually set up the company to create value.

Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

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 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.

Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.

Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy.