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" You want people using your product because it's a part of your life, then they can't stop using it. "

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" Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those. "

" It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on. "

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" Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep. "

" My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.' "

" I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool. "

" You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label. "

" In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results. "

" I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact. "

" One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place. "

" I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful. "

" At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media. "

" If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free. "

" What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy. "

" Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles. "

" There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes. "

" There came a time when these two incompatible notions of who I was, well, something had to give. Either that 'something' is where you acquiesce to the world around you and you conform, or you sort of defiantly break whatever remaining bonds connect you to that world and create for yourself a different set of values. "

" There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services. "

" The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups. "

" Facebook isn't helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn't develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There's a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this. "

" You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside. "

" I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality. "

" Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years. "

" I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting. "

" There is no simple answer to what I think. "

" I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch. "

" I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. "