At first when you start a company, everything's gonna feel like a mess and it really should. It should feel like everyday there's a new problem, and what you're doing is fundamentally triaging.

The team you build is the company you build.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

Treat customer support as a product.

You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.

Loving spirits are with you every step of the way, cheering you on and offering help when they can. You are never alone.

I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

Life's most beautiful and inspiring moments occur at 3am, just prowling, looking for nothing but always finding something.

I’m willing to walk in darkness if it keeps humans in the light.

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic - providing opportunity and not guarantees.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

His mom lived in Long Island for ten years or so. God rest her soul. And, although, she's... wait... your mom's still... your mom's still alive. Your dad passed. God bless her soul.

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.

War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.