Change the world. Build a business. Have fun..

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring..

Assume the best but hire paranoid people..

Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicat….

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is..

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was ….

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps..

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wa….

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success..

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire ….

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier..

Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your dec….

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling..

When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll ge….

I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent..

Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would ….

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas ….

When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, ‘Do fewer things.’ It’s true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, an….