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I got a Cybertruck—when I posted this to my family group chat, my Mom said, “Yay, now I can blow it up!” I replied, “When you do more than Elon Musk to stop climate change, then you can hate him.” My sister replied, “This is a chat for our family to share updates, not to get trolled with right wing vitriol.” The left has gone insane.

I think a lot about how we don’t have anything in software in the category of luxury.

I use Peter Thiel's advice on compensating the CEOs of start-ups: they should never be paid more than $150,000. But $150,000 in 2014 is the same as $200,000 today.

I'm deeeeeep into water & cement at the moment. Water is the #1 most used product in the world. Cement is the #2 most used product in the world. The scale is mind-blowing. Scale is on another level when you're in these two markets.

I think of myself as a Democrat, in that I care about how our society takes care of the most vulnerable; I believe in protecting the environment; and I think abortion should be legal. It's hard to explain how hard-core I've been bullied out of the Democratic coalition, and not because I support Trump, but because I refuse to condemn people who do as evil. The morning after the election, my very serious boyfriend, who I'd known for 15 years, broke up with me (via text message) because "We don't share the same values." I was like, "What? First of all, my values haven't changed the entire time we've known each other. Second, I spend all day, every day, working hard to improve the world." I don't speak of politics to my family, whom I'm very close with, because I fear it would result in the same. They are adamant about a lot of things that I think are pretty crazy to believe, like that Trump is Hitler. (His favorite daughter is Jewish!) That he thinks the troops are suckers and losers. (Republicans always increase defense spending!) But the main thing is that they think 50% of Americans are bad people: racist, sexist, and evil. I don't think that at all. I genuinely believe in Democracy and respect the people's choice. I don't think the Democrats are bad people either, but I admit it's getting harder and harder for me to maintain this belief.

Portfolio support is mostly fake. We invested heavily in portfolio support for Fund I, and we did tons: stacking the executive bench, introductions to VCs that led the next round, and introductions to early customers. The only thing we accomplished was delaying the failure of companies that would fail. Only once did we do something of material value: introduce the company to their acquirer. In our Fund II strategy, we will mostly give up portfolio support outside of exits.

I just asked my daughter if she wanted me to quit my job so I could be with her all the time. She said, “Mom, I have a better idea. I can join your company and then we can be together all the time.”

My cost basis in AMZN is $3.15

Incentives are everything. It's such an understudied area. There's not even a field devoted to one of the most important things on the planet (it's sort of a hybrid of business and economics and psychology), but it should be its own field.

Journalism is dying a slow, painful death as it has fundamentally abdicated its value proposition: telling the public what it needs to know.

Me to George Washington: So what’s your take on this visa stuff? George Washington: We put a man on the moon? Me: Yeah, a lot of people that immigrated to the US helped with that. George: The moon in the sky?

I got a Cybertruck—when I posted this to my family group chat, my Mom said, “Yay, now I can blow it up!” I replied, “When you do more than Elon Musk to stop climate change, then you can hate him.” My sister replied, “This is a chat for our family to share updates, not to get trolled with right wing vitriol.” The left has gone insane.

I think a lot about how we don’t have anything in software in the category of luxury.

I'm deeeeeep into water & cement at the moment. Water is the #1 most used product in the world. Cement is the #2 most used product in the world. The scale is mind-blowing. Scale is on another level when you're in these two markets.

I think of myself as a Democrat, in that I care about how our society takes care of the most vulnerable; I believe in protecting the environment; and I think abortion should be legal. It's hard to explain how hard-core I've been bullied out of the Democratic coalition, and not because I support Trump, but because I refuse to condemn people who do as evil. The morning after the election, my very serious boyfriend, who I'd known for 15 years, broke up with me (via text message) because "We don't share the same values." I was like, "What? First of all, my values haven't changed the entire time we've known each other. Second, I spend all day, every day, working hard to improve the world." I don't speak of politics to my family, whom I'm very close with, because I fear it would result in the same. They are adamant about a lot of things that I think are pretty crazy to believe, like that Trump is Hitler. (His favorite daughter is Jewish!) That he thinks the troops are suckers and losers. (Republicans always increase defense spending!) But the main thing is that they think 50% of Americans are bad people: racist, sexist, and evil. I don't think that at all. I genuinely believe in Democracy and respect the people's choice. I don't think the Democrats are bad people either, but I admit it's getting harder and harder for me to maintain this belief.

Portfolio support is mostly fake. We invested heavily in portfolio support for Fund I, and we did tons: stacking the executive bench, introductions to VCs that led the next round, and introductions to early customers. The only thing we accomplished was delaying the failure of companies that would fail. Only once did we do something of material value: introduce the company to their acquirer. In our Fund II strategy, we will mostly give up portfolio support outside of exits.

Incentives are everything. It's such an understudied area. There's not even a field devoted to one of the most important things on the planet (it's sort of a hybrid of business and economics and psychology), but it should be its own field.

Is work ethic something you can teach? If so, how can you teach work ethic?

I use Peter Thiel's advice on compensating the CEOs of start-ups: they should never be paid more than $150,000. But $150,000 in 2014 is the same as $200,000 today.

Journalism is dying a slow, painful death as it has fundamentally abdicated its value proposition: telling the public what it needs to know.

I just asked my daughter if she wanted me to quit my job so I could be with her all the time. She said, “Mom, I have a better idea. I can join your company and then we can be together all the time.”

Capitalism does not want you to become a widget-maker, it wants you to self-actualize.

My cost basis in AMZN is $3.15