If you look at the ecosystem, entrepreneurs as a class have gotten younger, younger, and younger. They also as a class have become less and less and ….

The entrepreneurial struggle is the same at basically every stage in the sense that there's maybe slightly less risk but strategic issues are general….

People should absolutely have a point of view about the political process themselves individually, but we're also at a point in the evolution of capi….

I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a goal. It's kind of like, I have three young chil….

I think unfortunately in this gold rush mentality that we've been in for the last years there has been not enough focus on business model quality. So….

The half-life of companies is shrinking. So in the same ease in which you can start a company today to disrupt an incumbent, you have to also realize….

I would tell startups to just keep your head down, keep building. Your contingency plan, if you have one, should be because you are still spending mo….

I think the reality is that it's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur, it's never been a better time to work at a startup. You work at a re….

As you start the company, you start spending spending spending ahead of revenue but then you come out of it and very quickly you should become a comp….

What you should be in a rush for isn't necessarily the immediate monetary return, but it's to know that this equation existing between an employee an….

The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one. Get past the product market fit, figure out whether people actually care about what you're tryi….

If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup then you are in a very precarious and difficult position. You need to grow th….

The reason to go public is that it is a massive branding, marketing, credibility, trust-building exercise with your customers, and then it allows you….

The point of Silicon Valley at least when I moved here was we're all trying to do stuff and none of us quite felt like we fit in anywhere else. But w….

It's OK, by the way, that it takes 10 years for you to make "money." Since when was it that being in your mid-30s to make a few hundred thousand doll….

If the investors themselves are not sophisticated, if they themselves are not putting a lot of their own money to work, if they themselves don't unde….

Startups should be, if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero, you're not making any mone….