Quote

My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.

When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

I used to run record companies, and I went to the advertising business at 29 years old.

I established my bank in 1988.

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

I've been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal as an investor.