At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.
Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.
Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.
You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.
It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.
The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.
A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.
The Facebook algorithm designers chose to let us see what our friends are talking about. They chose to show us, in some sense, more of the same. And that is the design decision that they could have decided differently. They could have said, "We're going to show you stuff that you've probably never seen before. " I think they probably optimized their algorithm to make the most amount of money, and that probably meant showing people stuff that they already sort of agreed with, or were more likely to agree with.
I didn't really work with Vin on it except we talked about it a little bit. I think it was kind of cool because we didn't think it was going to be that emotional. I don't think Vin knew I was going to be that emotional.
We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.
Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.