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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.