Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but it creates a society that, for example, allows us to invest in each other's kids, to have public education, to have both a greater society and individual freedom for creating businesses.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

One of the really key things to look at in terms of crafting strategy when you're in an economic crises is how do you maximize essentially your liquidity position? Your ability to both take kind of profits and revenues and business and then convert that into a stronger lead. And so those companies that can do that can actually, you know, get a march on their competitors.

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.

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.

I think Hillary [Clinton] hears the anger in a broad swath of the American people, and she says, "OK, how do I help create a future that's good for you?"

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.