After quitting my job at Amazon, I moved to San Francisco where I found a co-founder and began working on various startup ideas without being picky about the market.

When I first came to Silicon Valley, I lived in the AOL office for several months, using their facilities while building my startup.

I fell into entrepreneurship accidentally; I went to college to be a computer programmer, but after the dot-com bubble burst, startups weren't on anyone's mind.

I applied to Y Combinator on a long shot, not expecting to get in, but after interviewing in Palo Alto, I was accepted and dropped out of graduate school to pursue my startup.

Feeling out of place in Silicon Valley initially made me feel like I didn't belong, but that underdog mentality helped shape who we are today.

I heard about Silicon Valley and was drawn to the environment where everyone was obsessed with building and technology.

I started my first company out of my dorm room at Stanford, aiming to help students get jobs at banks and consulting firms, but it ultimately didn't work out because no one was using LinkedIn at the time.

When I moved to Silicon Valley, I finally felt at home among people who shared my passion for deep subjects and building, where my interests were celebrated rather than judged.

I decided to start an internet company in 1995 instead of pursuing a PhD at Stanford because I wanted to be part of the technological advancements happening at that time.