World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.

All human beings are entrepreneurs.

People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.

If you have to conduct layoffs, which is always a regrettable thing, there's kind of three things that are very important. One is to communicate well with your employees in order to help them understand why it is you're doing, and how. Second is to make sure that the employees who are part of the go forward, understand kind of what happened and are not like the ground doesn't keep moving. It's like, okay, we did that, we're moving forward, here we go. And then for the employees that you unfortunately have to let go, try to provide as much support for them as possible.

Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.