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In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.

Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it's clearly not going to.

For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they've built. You have an emotional attachment to the early marketing and technology materials, and you don't want to hear that anything's wrong with them.

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.

The challenge in a startup is you hit a lot of turbulence, and you want people who understand that it's just turbulence and not a crisis.

Startups often have to do dubious things.

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.