Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

The key thing that I find that when you're kind of in boom times and you're hiring bunches, if you can hire, you know, always maintain very high standards and even if you, you know, can't find enough of, you know, what is typically called A players, then don't hire the people. All right? So, you know, use that as a way of standards.

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.