Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech's top power couple

Find the niche, start really small and find the niche. I think oftentimes I've seen other startup founders... being like, 'I'm going to build this world's largest community off this kind of thing,' and it almost starts at this super scaled version and then they set themselves up for failure.

Don't wait to create amazing things. Often just the act of putting yourself out there can just spur amazing things in itself.

You are the best you out there. So for example... let's say you are a 21-year-old PM, fresh out of school, first year... you just talk about your journey, talk about what you're doing, talk about what you're learning.

He would tell you what the rules of engagement were for every meeting... 'I'm going to give you a spectrum of A, how much I care about this topic. Everything from I don't care... All the way to I'm the founder, I'm the CEO, just do this.'

When you sign up for Facebook for many, many years, you'll get this little thing called People You May Know. Then you'll have this person who just signed up for Facebook, you go, 'Why I'm seeing this person?' It's not because you need a friend, because they need a friend. So what Facebook did was it made your experience slightly worse to make that person's experience slightly better.

I spent years slowly climbing the corporate ranks... And I spent years just thinking that all I need to do is put my head down, do my job really well and that was it. But then I looked around... some sort of people were getting way more opportunities.

You are the best you out there. So for example... let's say you are a 21-year-old PM, fresh out of school, first year... you just talk about your journey, talk about what you're doing, talk about what you're learning.

Don't wait to create amazing things. Often just the act of putting yourself out there can just spur amazing things in itself.

Don't wait to create amazing things. Often just the act of putting yourself out there can just spur amazing things in itself.

You have to retreat to a place where you feel real mastery of. So for example, when I was at Microsoft, I was like, 'Well, I don't speak the language very well, English,' and I had an accent, et cetera, but I knew that I was the most online developer person out there.

When every new job I've been in, I have always felt that I didn't deserve to be there and I mean I genuinely.

You do two coffees a week and literally just ask me two hours a week, everyone has two hours a week, it'll start compounding over overtime.

Find the niche, start really small and find the niche. I think oftentimes I've seen other startup founders... being like, 'I'm going to build this world's largest community off this kind of thing,' and it almost starts at this super scaled version and then they set themselves up for failure.