“Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnin...” — Ben Horowitz Quote

“Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes very volatile. Short sellers can put a tremendous downward pressure on the stock.”

“I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.”

“As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.”

“As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.”

“Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.”