Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you're not crazy and that you can pull this off.

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

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.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

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

I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.

I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.