The best advice for a first time CEO is make sure you have built a strong technical founding team, and then launch!
When someone posts a Socialcam video, all of their followers get an instant notification.
Founders always say, 'I'm going to 'make my thing go viral' - that doesn't mean just adding a share button.
If someone who's passed on your company as an investor offers you to make introductions, that's kryptonite. Don't touch that.
I think there are two challenges - and one challenge is how to diversify the workforce in the technology industry, and the other challenge is how to diversify the people who are starting companies.
Socialcam shares Autodesk's mission of helping everybody imagine, design, and create a better world.
I think tech is driving most of the innovation and will continue to for a very, very long time.
New York is my favorite city to visit because there is always something to do, someone to meet, and something to discover.
I wanted a simple one-bedroom apartment that would impress people when they walked in but that was otherwise extremely comfortable and useful.
One thing I like to tell founders is the more you talk, the more you have an opportunity to say something that people don't like. Talk less, and it will probably be better.
It turns out that one of the biggest drivers of investors are both successful and non-successful startup founders.
The number one problem companies have during the Y Combinator interview is that a minute into the interview, we don't know what they do. It's the same problem with the application. You might think we're experts, but you still have to explain it to us.
Startups are often best at solving the personal problems of their founders. The more diverse the founders, the more types of problems can be solved - and the more people who will be positively impacted by technology.
I was the CEO of Justin.tv, and my cofounders were senior engineers there. We came up with the idea at Justin.tv in the fall of 2010.
Never put the investor in the ultimate position of power.
