“I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger.” — Hilary Mason Quote

I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger.

When you start at Bitly, you go through this emotional cycle, where first you go, 'Oh my God, this data is amazing.' But then you start looking at it, and you conclude that humanity is completely doomed. Because what people read is cats and Bieber and celebrity gossip and that stuff.

Technology is giving companies superpowers to compete more intelligently and capture the data behind changing trends, expanding markets, and new opportunities.

It's easy to find people who can make pretty pictures, and it's easy to find people who can do math. But it's difficult to find people who can do both.

I don't know a startup that hasn't been through tough times.

We are calling ourselves a startup nation, but the number of people who set out on their own is very low; even 10,000 a year would be low in a country like India. We can say we are a startup nation but the world won't say it.

The two big startup killers are when there's just no market for what you are doing, and team problems.

I have this passion for building things, so I always wanted to build a startup. I always wanted to start my own company.

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.