“I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.”

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

Bring the world closer together.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

I think I’ve grown and learned a lot.

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected.

Instead of building walls, we can help build bridges.

When you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

If you actually do something you love it’s a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose.

Find that thing you are super passionate about.

Please wear a mask. Covid is spreading quickly again and masks help keep people healthy and keep the country open.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I’m looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

When you want to do the thing that nobody did till now, once this desire comes from your heart, then you don’t have to do anything, that desire will do anything by using your body.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.