Ever since Napster I've dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.

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.

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 want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it.

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

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

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.