Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

I was never given this advice, people aren't given this advice, focus on growing and maintaining relationships for your network, and that's key. And most of the advice tends to be, you know, discover your strengths, build up your resume, get a title, all of that stuff pales in comparison.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.

A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.

I'm sympathetic to the people who go, "Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more efficiently," but the reason that we remain staunch democrats - with a small d - is it's a decades long, it's a centuries long, it's a country long process for being inclusive.

So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.