I would have volunteered to work at Netscape. It was the center node of this new technology and the commercial ecosystem of the Internet.
Each year, I ask, 'Now that I have this knowledge, these resources, what can I do?'
Broadly, the meaning of life comes from how we interact with each other. The Internet can reconfigure space so that the right people are always next to each other.
I think 'Settlers of Catan' is such a well-designed board game - it's the board game of entrepreneurship - that I made a knockoff called 'Startups of Silicon Valley.' It's literally - it's the same rules but just a different skin set to it.
Trump often says he needs to keep his tax returns private until the IRS finishes auditing him. But the IRS itself has said this isn't necessary. And recently, Trump changed his tune, saying he'll release his returns as soon as Hillary Clinton releases the 33,000 emails she deleted from her email server.
For Trump, the reasons to release his tax returns have always been compelling. Doing so would show the American people he doesn't just talk about accountability and transparency but also walks the walk.
What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.
For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.
As a child, I wondered often, 'Why are we? What is the meaning of life?' These questions made me realize that life is what has meaning - not just individual lives, but all of our lives.
I've long believed that if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've released too late.
Your customers are always a bottomless well of surprises.
We want to be inclusive. We want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian, to feel comfortable with how we're doing business. And so that tends to be apolitical. People say, 'No, no, I just simply shouldn't get involved in politics.'
The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to it as well. All these different aspects commingle in ways that convince me we should take whatever steps we can to abolish the death penalty.
I'm a little unusual: I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert.
The key thing for me has always been how we realize the mission - enabling every professional in the world to change their own economic curve by the strength of their alliances and connections with other people.
In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff, because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny.
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
The business of America is business, but it's about high-integrity business. It's about a business where you keep your word, where you make square deals.
'Founder' is a state of mind, not a job description, and if done right, even CEOs who join after day 1 can become founders.
Even by Silicon Valley standards, PayPal's vision was massively ambitious.
