You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to come by, growth is easy, sometimes what you focus on is, you know, how to accelerate in the boom. During economic crises, the question is, the companies that come out of, you know, that are sailing through that with the best liquidity, both assets on the balance sheet, making money, ability to grow their businesses, get a disproportionate competitive advantage.

You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.

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

We've been working for years on how we can use technology to help people make their own jobs, become entrepreneurs, create their own small businesses. Those are the kinds of things that I and a bunch of other people at LinkedIn actually work on.

All human beings are entrepreneurs.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.