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I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

Yahoo is free, it's fast and it's Web-centric. AOL is slow, it costs money and requires proprietary software.

The only way you win is by knowing what you're good at and what you're not good at, and sticking to what you're good at.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies.

Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.

Games are the most social of all things on the web.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.

Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.

People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.

Money is information, like bits.

If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented.

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.

It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.

Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.