A lot of people are going to be able to create software who never had technical capabilities before, but they have good taste and know what good is like.
I like living in danger because you're onto something new, you're doing something different, and it's risky. And I don't mind that. It doesn't keep me awake at night.
Quality in people is rare. Quality in ideas is rare.
That moment of magic when something good does happen is the thing I'm addicted to. That feeling of, it wasn't good, it's not good. Oh my God, it's good.
The harder the business is to build, the harder it will be to copy.
The most interesting people are the most interested.
No egos, no politics. Everybody has to pull for the larger boat. You can't be in your own rowboat.
From that day on I said, 'I'll never, ever, ever, put the company in a position that we're financially strapped. I'll never do that again.'
Experts are dangerous. There's an assumption that experts do things correctly or in the most clever way. It's not true.
If you understand how to have a deep curiosity about everything — and I mean everything — you have an edge that cannot be beaten.
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