Occupation: Entrepreneur Birth: October 11, 1967
Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to cont….
Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where e….
I think somehow people should be encouraged to think about a very long time horizon and I think this is true for businesses, it's true for government….
If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers..
Luck is like an atheistic word for God..
Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school..
University administrators are the equivalent of subprime mortgage brokers selling you a story that you should go into debt massively, that it's not a….
I think China thinks information technology is less important than we think it is in the US, economically, and more important politically. And so Chi….
The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined..
I'm always very excited about trying to do something on next-generation biotechnology and life sciences because I think if we can cure cancer or deme….
The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on..
Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. No matter how strong….
The lowest-hanging fruit in preventative medicine is just to really focus on nutrition..
Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts - mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowle….
Moving first is a tactic, not a goal..
Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in….
One of the reasons I think people are increasingly nervous about U.S. debt is because they think that we are not actually digging ourselves out of th….
You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing some….
Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely false. It does matter wh….
Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead..
In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work ….