I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.
The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback, particularly from friends.
You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.
You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
My motivation for all my companies has been to be involved in something that I thought would have a significant impact on the world.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I’d be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.
Great companies are built on great products.
I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.