We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.

The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.

Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in our world is roughly equivalent to how many startups people should start.

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.

What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.