Occupation: Internet Entrepreneur Birth: April 24, 1983
If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite..
It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time..
Not everyone is going to end up being a founder of a company, but the skill of being entrepreneurial, having ideas and going through with them - that….
Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, "Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world.".
The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us ….
At the end of the day, how many ads did it take to convince you to use Facebook or Twitter? It wasn't marketing or advertising that convinced you to ….
Do not be scared of the incumbents..
Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'..
I hate phone calls so I believe in a telephone armistice. To me, the idea of calling someone unprompted is basically saying, 'Hey, stop whatever you'….
If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control..
It turns out the Internet is this amazing resource for everyone who has access to it..
The people who are going to be succeeding are not going to be waiting around for anyone's permission..
We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way.
I think everyone should learn how to code..
The Internet is, as a communication platform and a learning platform, unparalleled because whether you want to learn something or share something, it….
Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes ….
The stage of investing that I do is seed stage, so it's really early. Here's a pair of founders who maybe have a prototype. They have a little bit of….
I think we are a better and a more efficient society when people actually get to do the things that they really are passionate about, and really are ….
Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most val….
I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' Surround yourself with pe….
Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't..