When you look at Uber, you look at Slack now, or you look at Instacart, or you look at any of these companies, people tend to think that viral growth and network effects... that there's a silver bullet that, once your product has it, you just are kind of on this amazing trajectory. And what you find, instead, when you look inside, is you see thousands of people working their asses off ... What you really see is the hard work that actually goes into these companies is just an incredible amount of work.

Video games don't make you antisocial. In fact, they're probably one of the most social things you can do.

So much ink has been spilled about the driver-less car, but I think the idea of a kitchen-less home is more realistic.

In the not-too-distant future, people will be eating the majority of their meals either through delivery or pickup.

For the top-tier venture capital funds, about half of your investments will actually lose money, and then you'll get another slice... where you get your money back, and then it's 1 out of 10, 1 out of 20 that makes money and pays for everything else.

With Minecraft and Fortnite, one of the reasons why they've achieved the critical mass and the size that they have is because you can play those games on legitimately almost every platform there is out there

There is a really funny poll that LEGO actually ran where they surveyed a bunch of kids, it was like 3,000 kids, and asked them what are the professions that they wanted to do. And if you look at the results... the first thing on the list is being a YouTuber.

Roblox is just, I think, a really fascinating example of a broader phenomenon that's happening, which is that, first, games are often the canary in the coal mine for a lot of new computing platforms.

We went from this world where we have been giving one or two million bucks to every credible entrepreneur. And now, what it seems like we're doing is we're going to give five or ten million dollars to every credible person to now go and invest in their friends.

Writing is so valuable, I think, because it's just the most scalable professional activity.

These companies that were getting built by the PayPal Mafia and also just more broadly, including Airbnb and Uber and Pinterest and all these companies that we love, are, at their core, about connecting people with one another.