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.

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

The key thing for all businesses, and especially of course technology businesses or businesses that employ technology as a key kind of strategic advantage, is you always have to be investing in the future.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

I find that the interesting challenges, because there's obvious things where, you know, don't be unethical, don't be evil, you know, don't break the law, don't do immoral things, those are all straightforward and don't create ethical dilemmas. The thing that's interesting is when you actually have multiple interests at stake and you have to kind of navigate your way through it.

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.

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