QUOTES

The way that you build a real lasting business is by really focusing and narrowing on one specific thing and making a very concentrated bet.

We want to build the tool that gives everybody the power to go and make things that they want to make in the world.

Failure is a part of life. It means you tried. You get back up on your horse, and you try it again. I've failed at a number of things. That doesn't stop me.

If you're doing enough experiments, you're trying to be logical in what you're doing, but sometimes something occurs that's not logical, and it works. So you've just got to keep trying. Luck will happen to you.

People talk about, 'Oh, yeah, we rank our engineers by how many tokens they're spending.' Well, let's try and rank people by how much output they're actually producing or how much good work is actually getting done.

It's the person, not the business that you're backing.

When it's a passion or an obsession, there's no end to it.

Developing technology and coming out with different radical products, that's what interests me. Not making money per se.

You don't necessarily want everybody to know what you're doing. I think there's a human instinct to say, 'Hey, look at me. I'm doing this great thing. Isn't this cool?' But, actually, in business, it's better if the competitor doesn't understand or doesn't see you.

Retreat is not an option. Burn the ships.