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.

Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

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.