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" Startupfest is a very positive conference. I think a lot of it has to do with how different culturally it is from other startup or tech conferences. "

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" All of this conversation about chat and assistance lays the groundwork for what I would look at as the future of commerce. "

" PayPal's been around forever. How do we use that platform to solve the future of commerce? "

" What I do think is important is this idea of a 'privacy native' where you grow up in a world where the values of privacy are very different. So it's not that I'm against privacy but that the values around privacy are very different for me and for people who are younger than my parent's generation, for whom it's weird to live in a glass house. "

" I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing. "

" I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed. "

" When you have a good vision and a very large capability of impact, that's very powerful. "

" My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads. "

" We were orbiting around the idea of intent and context. We would take the bus into work, and if you said, 'Here's a shirt you might like,' and I open it on my mobile phone, I'm not going to pull out my credit card and wallet. We thought, 'How does someone do this? An e-mail to yourself, or you try to remember?' "

" Chicago's a flyover city. I don't think we should try to change that. But it would be really cool if we had a little more opportunity for investors to come hang out. "

" Ten Internets ago, when PayPal was started, it was all these tools that no one had built yet to bring commerce to the Internet. My first startup used PayPal. "

" Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise. "

" When you read Trump's tweets or see candidates interact online like Jeb did with Hillary, you're like, 'Yes, it's just like my friends.' That's the magic. "

" The digital team who were running Twitter, they weren't just going to put out a tweet for fun. They're going to try and figure out how do we measure the impact. Then they'd tweet it, and if it worked, great. "

" Our goal is to solve a problem for the retailer, not to solve a problem for my ego - which is big. "

" There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the ones who need it the most. "

" One of my favourite books about hackers is 'Masters of Deception' about this hacking group in the 1990s. Many of them didn't come from wealthy families. These are kids that are very intelligent; they just happen to be misdirected. "

" I can only speak to the Democrat side, but for the Democrats, everything is aggressively measured, and what that means is if you're going to use Snapchat, you're going to use it for a reason, not just for fun. "

" Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice. "

" TechStars offers a network, and being a part of that network is an awesome opportunity. "

" If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing. "

" Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything. "

" Not every time you open Messenger do you want an Uber, but when you do want an Uber, it appears. That is the goal. "

" When I look for new books, I often struggle to find things that challenge and entertain me. This has caused me to spend a number of cycles thinking about where I can get the serendipitous book discovery experience that we had in physical book stores. "

" We didn't want to waste time by sending our volunteers to Republicans; we sent them to the undecided. "

" I'm a white male in power. In many cases, I'm the enemy. "

" Security is very difficult. You have to be very careful about security, and I think oftentimes people just forget; they don't invest in the right things. "

" I'm not a very patient person in general. "

" In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it. "

" I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books. "