At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.