We Don't Celebrate Failure In Silicon Valley.

One Of The Really Key Things To Look At In Terms Of Crafting Strategy When You're In An Economic Crises Is How Do You Maximize Essentially Your Liquidity Position? Your Ability To Both Take Kind Of Profits And Revenues And Business And Then Convert That Into A Stronger Lead. And So Those Companies That Can Do That Can Actually, You Know, Get A March On Their Competitors.

Probably The Biggest Mistake That I Made Personally Is I Knew Early On That I Wanted To Go Into Start-ups And Creating Kind Of Software That Could Help Change The Lives Of Millions Of People. And Basically What I Did Is I Kind Of Went, Okay, Well, I Need A Set Of Titles And I Need A Checklist Of Skills, And I Ran Through All That, And That Wasn't A Useless Thing, But What I Didn't Realize, And, You Know, And No One Gave Me The Right Advice For Doing This, Is That Actually Your Network, In Essentially, Is Your Career.

No Matter How Brilliant Your Mind Or Strategy, If You're Playing A Solo Game, You'll Always Lose Out To A Team.

Be Persistent, And Hang On To Your Vision. And At The Same Time, Be Flexible.

It’s Actually Pretty Easy To Be Contrarian. It’s Hard To Be Contrarian And Right.