Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.

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.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

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