I was born in Sri Lanka.

No conflict, no interest.

Profiles aren't journalism.

Money is information, like bits.

My first job was at a Burger King.

Internet TV is replacing linear TV.

I make an eight-figure income annually.

Valuable companies take decades to build.

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

Twitter wasn't planned. It just happened.

Change the way we teach; Empower teachers

I think Apple is a productive cash machine.

I think of myself as just another consumer.

The government - they're completely useless.

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

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

Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

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

Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.

I have, oddly, two ski houses - trying to sell one.

You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

I come from generations of progressive, atheist Jews.

Zuck is unemotional. He doesn't get influenced by ego.

You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction.

Early traction of Tesla is tracking very closely to Apple.

I wish I had invested in the series A of Snapchat and Uber.

Prosperity isn't something that squirts out of rich people.

I wasn't blessed with the natural ability to rein myself in.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

You have to respect people for who they are on a basic level.

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

In a downturn, aggressive PR and communications strategy is key.

Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

I think that we should all be defined by our work and our results.

If you can't invent the future, the next best thing is to fund it.

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

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

You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction.

We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.

Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation.

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

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

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

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