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

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.

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

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.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

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

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