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

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

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

One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new.

I think I knew how frightened people were [when Donald Trump was elected], and I think I knew that people were worried about their future. I don't think I realized that they would be willing to risk kind of a 1920s Germany in order to blow it all up, not realizing that we've accomplished a lot as Americans, and we want to keep the good things and revolutionize the new things.