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What happens next is up to you.
For most people, tweeting is scary.
For most people, Twitter feels lonely.
Twitter is more a cultural than a technological change.
The Internet is not pervasive as it could be, or democratic.
One rule we have at my house is, be proud of what we invest in.
I don't have a boss or PR person, so I'm accountable to no one.
George Winston piano albums have been my go-to since junior high.
The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.
Startup investing is one of my things, but it is not my everything.
Buckminster Fuller - he never lost faith in the goodness of humanity.
There is no well-trodden route to where I am, no formula to replicate.
Being a cheap bastard now means so much more freedom and choices later.
When you're fundraising for a venture fund, you're supposed to not talk.
When I think about Trump and the GOP, the blood really is on their hands.
There simply isn't a way to do the show without investing in a bunch more companies.
You probably know me as a producer for 'This American Life', a top podcast in iTunes.
I have definitely refocused Lowercase Capital on later-stage deals and my existing portfolio.
The old economy with careers and benefits and pensions is gone. There are scary implications to that.
I literally should go to a Twitter therapist, just the 10 years of stress and trauma with this company.
When someone comes in with a product they want in Bed Bath & Beyond, that's way out of my comfort zone.
There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn't know existed.
Facebook is who you used to know; Twitter is who you want to know and things you want to know more about.
I want to make clear that my feedback comes from a place of loyalty and persistent gratitude. I love Twitter.
I am retiring from startup investing. It's hard to leave all this behind right when things are going so well.
Travis Kalanick was and is the perfect person to lead Uber, a product I knew from day one was going to be big.
When you see a 'Shark fight' erupt, we aggressively want to understand what we are committing our money toward.
Twitter can afford to build the wrong things. However, Twitter cannot afford to build the right things too slowly.
A deep appreciation for politics comes from empathy for our fellow human beings and their diverse paths through life.
What is success anyway? Is success about making the most money? No. Money, for the most part, turns people into jerks.
Ride-sharing is one of the biggest math problems that's ever been approached, that's ever been attempted to be solved.
I think there wouldn't be a Net neutrality debate in this country if we really had a competitive environment for access.
If you follow my tweets, you know, my attention and anxiety have been increasingly focused on the plight of our democracy.
When I first agreed to do 'Shark Tank,' they asked me to wear a suit, and I was just like, 'No. I can't. It'll end my career.'
Make tweets effortless to enjoy, make it easier for all to participate, and make each of us on Twitter feel heard and valuable.
In the earlier years of my career, I made my own attempts to fit in and be accepted as one of the tribe of Sand Hill Road guys.
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.
The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.
How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?
I don't drink coffee. Weird, I know. But I try to stay away from caffeine. That said, we are investors in Blue Bottle, which is delicious!
It would be a lot cheaper for me not to have to raise tens of millions of dollars to elect progressive candidates who will raise my taxes.
It is very hip to be an angel investor now. There used to be a dozen, two dozen guys at these demo days writing checks. Now there are hundreds.
I was in the room when Sundar convinced Eric Schmidt that it would be possible to unseat Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser.
My biggest concern is the abundance of public doubt and misunderstanding when it comes to Twitter's vision and the near future for the service.
Twitter is 'Black Twitter'. That is a brand that 'Black Twitter' has given itself. That's where the hashtags happen... where the excitement is.
When you get into investing, your default stance should be 'No,' because most deals suck. Most deals won't make money. Most companies will fail.
I may be the only shark who hasn't been on QVC, but I have learned a lot from those folks about what it takes to get a product on store shelves.
Shark Tank's participatory. There's so many people on Twitter for this show, and they all feel like they're in the tank, making calls on this stuff.
You can't necessarily tell when watching at home, but those pitches are usually an hour long each, and many are emotional, hilarious, and inspiring.