Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies.

Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.