Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.

No company has a culture; every company is a culture.

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

People working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren’t releasing new PR announcements every day. The bigger the secret and the likelier it is that you alone have it, the more time you have to execute. There may be far more people going after hard secrets than we think.

Whatever the career, sales ability distinguishes superstars from also-rans.

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.