The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.
It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren’t working on.
Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you’re going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren’t quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.
I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn’t making money, but making an impact.
I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they’ve heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.
A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.
You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more – I don’t think it’s ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.
What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.
I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.
There’s a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what’s happening on streaming services.
In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.
If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn’t do anything with start-ups.
The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head – if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.
Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.
Look – There’s good creepy and there’s bad creepy. Today’s creepy is tomorrow’s necessity.
The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.
One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.
Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We’ll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.
There is no simple answer to what I think.
I’ve never been much of a joiner.