Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services] Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money [to the record labels]. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.