The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

All human beings are entrepreneurs.

When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.

My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also a few others, helped kind of instill in me, thinking thoughts about how life is meaningful in terms of how we all kind of live in a network of people and how you interact with those people is part of what makes life essentially meaningful and then kind of concepts to think about, how do you add value to other people's lives? How do they add value to yours? And how do you kind of form a community together in the network?

The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

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