People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.

If you don’t risk anything you risk everything.

Move fast, take risks, it’s okay to try big things you’re better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.

Find that thing you are super passionate about.

Young people are just smarter.

There’s a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.

You grow more when you get more people’s perspective.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

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

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

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

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.

I think video is a mega trend, almost as big as mobile.