You should start with an assumption that you, as an entrepreneur, are wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.
Great companies are built on great products.
When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength—400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well it’s really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn’t afraid of the dark anymore after that.
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.
I would like to allocate more time to dating, though. I need to find a girlfriend. That’s why I need to carve out just a little more time. I think maybe even another five to 10 — how much time does a woman want a week? Maybe 10 hours? That’s kind of the minimum? I don’t know.
If you go back a few hundred years what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances to transmit images flying accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
Yeah, well I think anyone who likes fast cars will love the Tesla. And it has fantastic handling by the way. I mean this car will crush a Porsche on the track, just crush it. So if you like fast cars, you'll love this car. And then oh, by the way, it happens to be electric and it's twice the efficiency of a Prius.
Imagine there was a pallet of $35M in cash that was plummeting through the atmosphere, and it was going to burn up.
Constantly think about how you could be doing things better and keep questioning yourself.
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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