on education: "I'm very grateful that it was just dumb luck that I was in a home where I had all these business school lessons going on before I was 14 or 15. I felt like, when I finished high school, I had finished many MBAs."
on China vs US tech: "the interesting thing that's happened with Chinese tech is the cloners have now become better than the companies they cloned. So now what's happened is Facebook is trying to clone Tencent."
on Seattle innovation: "everything Microsoft has been successful at has been cloned. Amazon is a very different animal, Bezos's specialty is that he throws alot of stuff against the wall, and he knows that most of it will fail. "
on cloning: "one of the things I forced myself to do when I see someone doing something smart, even if its not in my industry, but it applies to what I am doing, I'm going to force myself to copy that."