I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.

I wish to be focused on kind of the business stuff I'm doing, how do I contribute to our economic progress, how do I help create a future for American industry, American middle class, these kind of things. Those things actually really matter to me.

People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small business; how you manage your own personal career is the exact way you manage a small business. Your brand matters. That is how LinkedIn operates.

When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.

Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

I think we realized the depth of frustration through the current political process. So we said, "OK, we know there's a serious problem here, we know we need to work on it," and now it's "Oh, we need to work on it a lot faster."

World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.