QUOTES

When you're creating a new business in an area that has never been done, or with some new technology, or new business model — there's no playbook. And if you hire the people from the adjacent industry companies and ask them to go do it, they're just going to go do what they were doing before.

I don't actually like having blinders on.

Quite often when I'm talking to people, and they're trying to get life advice, they're not playing their game. They're playing someone else's game. So much is about choosing the game for you. When you do that, you start becoming superhuman in your ability to get things done.

You don't know you can solve it. But you've just got to try. You just got to do it.

If it's special to you, hold onto your equity. Take the risk, get more financing, but keep it yours, because you'll always be able to protect your baby.

The fact that my parents put all that pressure on me is the thing that caused me to really reflect on it and decide that, no, this is more than a little hobby or a side thing. I have to go do this.

If you can bring a team together that is also disrupting and innovative, then it goes from being Superman, to being the Avengers.

Some of the decisions you're making right now are going to ripple through the generations.

I don't know that I'm good. I know I'm different. But I have this sort of insane belief that I can get good if I try hard enough.

Find a principle. Don't necessarily have a goal, but find a principle.