What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.

The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.

Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and fearing reprisal, fearing reprisal from someone who is seeking the highest, most powerful role in the land, who has had a history of doing everything from attacks, threats and lawsuits and who has a complete kind of vengeful, narcissistic behavior, which makes people legitimately worried, almost like a schoolyard bully, that if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

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