Let's not project our fears onto others.

I'm not a very patient person in general.

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

Mobile usage is going up; mobile conversion is not.

'Data scientist,' as a profession, is largely a fad.

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

I'm a white male in power. In many cases, I'm the enemy.

The main ideas for us are scale, stability, and audience.

I don't drink coffee; I drink a lot of green tea and water.

If there's one thing about Chicago, we take care of our own.

I would say Silicon Valley and New York have inflated salaries.

Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise.

You can tell charlatans when they say 'big' in front of everything.

A lot of people are buying things on the Internet - not just white men.

I never would wish technology failing on any sort of opponent or enemy.

I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook?

We make interesting companies and real businesses. It's not social networks for cats.

TechStars offers a network, and being a part of that network is an awesome opportunity.

When you have a good vision and a very large capability of impact, that's very powerful.

PayPal's been around forever. How do we use that platform to solve the future of commerce?

If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing.

We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.

Taking time to do something slower than you normally would is a privilege that should not be ignored.

We didn't want to waste time by sending our volunteers to Republicans; we sent them to the undecided.

The opportunity to step away from everything and take a break is something that shouldn't be squandered.

In New York City, they have their own way of doing things. Every city and every region should do its own thing.

My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.

My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads.

In the U.S., it's all about turnout, which means you have to appeal to every single Democrat to get them to vote.

Not every time you open Messenger do you want an Uber, but when you do want an Uber, it appears. That is the goal.

Instagram is amazing, and I enjoy sharing photos there. However, I don't think it is where my photos will go to live.

Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything.

All of this conversation about chat and assistance lays the groundwork for what I would look at as the future of commerce.

Photo management software is terrible. Mylio is pretty good - but disrupts the 'natural' flow of things: i.e. Apple Photos.

There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the ones who need it the most.

I have to say that you don't really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting a little bit on your shoulders.

Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice.

Data is what powers all of us and our lives. It is ubiquitous among our now-connected lives. I love how it is now the oxygen of our Internet world.

Startupfest is a very positive conference. I think a lot of it has to do with how different culturally it is from other startup or tech conferences.

Google Photos is great. I enjoy using it to curate my photo collection online. The integration on iOS to Apple Photos is a bit too much voodoo for me.

Crowdsourcing is the future. However, if you don't trust your users to build/create/upload awesome work, they won't trust you with their crowd capital.

Security is very difficult. You have to be very careful about security, and I think oftentimes people just forget; they don't invest in the right things.

When you read Trump's tweets or see candidates interact online like Jeb did with Hillary, you're like, 'Yes, it's just like my friends.' That's the magic.

It was on a bulletin board that I first learned about hacker culture, the 'Let's just break through this wall and see what's on the other side' mentality.

I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed.

Ten Internets ago, when PayPal was started, it was all these tools that no one had built yet to bring commerce to the Internet. My first startup used PayPal.

Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don't exclude myself from that. It's about being smarter than a hacker. Not about being smart.

I usually hire people who have very exemplary work experience. Where they went to school, or what degree they have, really has no play into the hiring decision.

Donald Trump won the election. I think that's true. I also think there was interference. If this was another country, I think we'd be demanding another election.

Chicago's a flyover city. I don't think we should try to change that. But it would be really cool if we had a little more opportunity for investors to come hang out.

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