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My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.
Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.
The world's better off the more Silicon Valleys there are and the more scaled companies there are.
...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.
Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.
A startup, to a some degree, is a set of those challenges of, 'If you don't solve this, you're dead.'
First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.
You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.
Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.
You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.
Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.
I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.
There are opportunities that you get during crises times. Crises times are a great time to start a business.
Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.
I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.
The way you deal with bullies is you change their economic equation. Make it more expensive for them to hassle you.
Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.
Our polling methodology has gotten outdated, and, in fact, it's not really telling us what it needs to be telling us.
When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.
One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.
Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.
Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.
Simply writing a Ph.D. or academic book was unlikely to play much of a role in helping shape people's lives as I wanted.
The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.
It's unprecedented in the post-World War II era to have the leader of Germany say, 'Oh we can't rely on America anymore.'
'Founder' is a state of mind, not a job description, and if done right, even CEOs who join after day 1 can become founders.
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.
I think Hillary [Clinton] has [woken up to the plight of the middle class] and is working toward it in a democratic process.
Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.
When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.
If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.
The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.
People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?
There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.
So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?
Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.
The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?
In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.
A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.
[Hillary Clinton] is part of the establishment, and that's good for foreign policy and for understanding the ongoing health care system.