...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

We've been working for years on how we can use technology to help people make their own jobs, become entrepreneurs, create their own small businesses. Those are the kinds of things that I and a bunch of other people at LinkedIn actually work on.

...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating kind of software that could help change the lives of millions of people. And basically what I did is I kind of went, okay, well, I need a set of titles and I need a checklist of skills, and I ran through all that, and that wasn't a useless thing, but what I didn't realize, and, you know, and no one gave me the right advice for doing this, is that actually your network, in essentially, is your career.