QUOTES

Money, power, and fame are huge traps.

I realized that fast inference was going to matter. No one else did.

If you do everything, you will lose to Microsoft or Google, who does everything, but also has trillions of dollars more resources and 100,000 more people than you.

Retreat is not an option. Burn the ships.

[On not selling his business] If you lose your baby, you lose purpose, then you lose purpose in life.

Most people are so afraid of putting themselves out there and suffering the negative outcome that they won't get their hopes up. They will actually keep their sights much lower. But entrepreneurs, they start a company and they're like, 'Of course I'm going to be successful. I'm going to tell everyone. I'm going to go raise money. I'm going to put my reputation on the line, and I'm going to be forced to perform.'

A lot of really good innovators are innovators because they experienced the problem before others did.

Quality is less. Quality is focus. Quality is improving day by day. Quality is rare.

You didn’t even have to be smart. You had to have good follow-up. If you followed up, it kind of gave that extra point on the smart side of the scale.

I would get pretty obsessed with individual topics, and sort of go deep on them. I wouldn't consider myself generally interested in a bunch of things. I was super deep on certain things that excited me or interested me.