I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.

My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'

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.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.