I spent a lot of time learning how to define myself internally rather than externally. I learned how to care less about external validation. I think that's given me a renewed confidence in speaking out loud. I kind of don't care what people think about me. I feel a lot more confident in saying what I believe.

One of my rules for investing is, I don't invest in a deal where I don't think I have an unfair advantage and where I don't think I can personally impact the outcome.

The day after Donald Trump was elected, Chinese business leaders, including the heads of Baidu, stood up and gave a speech saying, 'Come to China and build your company now.' The cognitive dissonance of that was amazing for some of us to think we might be losing our leadership role in building companies.

In the earlier years of my career, I made my own attempts to fit in and be accepted as one of the tribe of Sand Hill Road guys.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.

I don't dislike money, but there's only so much money you can use.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.