“Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.”

Solve a real problem. You don’t start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur to solve a real problem.

Tell anyone and everyone your idea without fear they’re going to steal it.

Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.

It’s okay to doubt yourself, it’s okay to feel down; just never give up.

Solve a real problem and the world is yours.

People do make judgments of trust on appearance – in the real world and online.

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

Around that same time I started running. I never saw myself as the kind of person who would become a runner. It seemed unfathomable to me that I would ever run three miles, let alone 26.2.

My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it’s very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it’s more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you.

Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace.

Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.