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Trust is this notion that you'll keep doing actions that will ladder up over time. It really compounds. But you're going to add maybe 1% of trust for each positive interaction, but it takes one interaction that's bad to ruin all of it.

If you're experienced, you know why not to do something or how not to do something. Whereas if you're a young engineer you don't have that negativity towards certain things.

I work seven days a week. But for me, it's not work. To me, it's a craft, it's a skill that I have that I enjoy doing.

In life, people like to talk, and they don't like to listen.

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.

When you're a CEO you only got two things. You got time, and you got capital. And how you deploy that time, and how you deploy that capital equals results.

The more frame of reference you have, the more prepared you are to make difficult decisions because you've seen outcomes.

I don't want there to be an end to ambition, or enthusiasm, or curiosity, or the things that drive me.

You want to interact with people who you respect, and you want to be picking their brain all the time.

All the biggest companies in the world are software companies in 2026. Even the ones that folks don't necessarily think of that way.