Occupation: Computer Scientist Birth: July 11, 1975
Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector..
The notion that diversity in an early team is important or good is completely wrong. You should try to make the early team as non-diverse as possi….
You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for….
Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting ar….
I have this massive notebook called IDEAS and another one called PERSONAL IDEAS and another one called CRAZY IDEAS..
We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?.
Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more..
If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and say, 'My p….
The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways..
The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper….
Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is -Am I doing what I'm good at?.
PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence l….
Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads..
Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company..
I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal - at least the way I think….
Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself..
I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important..
The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile..
Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other.….
We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you ha….
You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp saw that very ear….