Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you.

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.