entrepreneur

We are more than we appear to be. The technology cannot be uninvented — I know, until I die, that we did that, and I was a key enabler of it.

Exploration starts with exploring yourself. There’s so much temptation for everyone to seek answers outside of themselves, when peace and leading a fulfilling life starts with self-knowledge and self-reflection.

The small act of paying attention to people is extraordinarily rewarding to every member of the team — and it’s amplified in an inverse way from their level on the hierarchy.

Never get into a vehicle where the fear of failure is greater than the fear of dying.

If you just stand up for your own values in all the things you do, big and small, you create the conditions for the possibility of collective action.

Every organisation is actually a little bubble of utopia. It’s somebody’s idea of the proper power relations between human beings. It’s a work of political philosophy, whether the person was aware of it or not.

Who would you rather die than betray? If it’s just shareholders, don’t expect anybody else to trust you.

What it means to make a profit is to maximise human flourishing. It just means you left the world better off than you found it.

We absolutely have to reclaim the word corruption to apply to any way of making money without creating value.”