My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also a few othe….

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards..

It's better to be the best connected than the most connected..

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally..

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location..

Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating kind of software that could he….

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days..

Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue line….

One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new thin….

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to..

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely dest….

I think Hillary [Clinton] has [woken up to the plight of the middle class] and is working toward it in a democratic process..

I think I knew how frightened people were [when Donald Trump was elected], and I think I knew that people were worried about their future. I don't th….

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it..

I don't normally think of like most successful moments, because like most entrepreneurs, I tend to think that however how high of a mountain I've cli….

Donald Trump has shown that he will essentially attack individuals, make Second Amendment jokes..

So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is..

In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters..

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important..

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something..

There are opportunities that you get during crises times. Crises times are a great time to start a business..