Occupation: Entrepreneur Birth: October 11, 1967
Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional ….
Great tech opportunities happen only once..
I think we have a bubble in the US in government bonds, because of the quantitative easing and the negative real interest rates, and to some extent, ….
The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth..
Google makes so much money that it’s now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined..
The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. ….
In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable..
You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable..
In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem..
The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of ever….
I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world..
There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get out there and fill in the blank spaces….
I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education.... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's very u….
I think that markets classically fail in cases where there are public goods that provide benefits that people cannot capture. The big debate is how b….
We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today..
Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories i….
There are quite a lot of people who think my aspirations are not possible. That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about these people very….
Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way. It's your ….
Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation..
Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit..
If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled, you end up wi….