I look for the entrepreneur to capture my attention. If you don't come out with a great presentation, you're dead. That's a big red flag.

You have to have something bigger than you. You have to have a goal that is greater than you.

I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.

Cash is the lifeblood of your business. There are very few things in business that will kill you, but running our of cash is one of those things. You can recover from almost any other mistake, but if you run out of cash you're dead.