Boom and bust cycles are very difficult for businesses because you're hiring a bunch because you're planning for the future. And if the future is going to be very big, you need to hire people, or suddenly you go to boom to bust, then all of a sudden, you're kind of battening down the hatches and trying to sail, you know, through the storm, it's a different thing. So part of it is making good decisions about, well, how long is a boom cycle going to be, you know, don't plan on it going forever.

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

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

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.

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."