From Quirkiest Biz Ideas to Favorite "Creatorpreneurs" - MFM Q&A

If you fail on the Internet, it's because it's a noisy place and you couldn't get anyone's attention. You die of starvation, not murder, when it comes to startups, Internet startups. And so, if you're failing, it's not because the Stanford kids beat you; it's because the market didn't want what you had to offer.

I've always said that... when a social network hits, it's not because of a feature; it's because of a change in the privacy policy. Facebook was the first time you used your real name on the Internet ... Twitter was like, hey, you don't have to be my friend; you could just follow me ... Snapchat, change of privacy policy—like yo, this is a disappearing photo that's private.

I go into every single deal assuming the deal is not going to go through ... Birds fly, fish swim, and deals fall through. That's what they do—deals fall through.

If you're not dating somebody who works at a tech company with all-you-can-eat food, what are you doing? ... I was the Pablo Escobar of smuggling Clif Bars out of tech companies for like 3 years.

I like sitting behind my laptop. I haven't worn pants in 450 days. This is the way to live.

I look back, I'm like, wow, college is a gold mine. You can make lifelong friends, you can meet future business partners ... I wish that, when I was in college, I had been launching businesses. I got a captive market of students who I understand, who I can reach, just literally living in this bubble waiting to be sold products.

And often life is that simple. It's not that there's actually any barrier in the way; it's just I didn't put my attention on what do I really want? Oh, yeah. Okay. I can probably just go get that.

Every deal that does close both, there's going to be 2 walkaways along the way. You're going to walk away, or they're going to walk away. That's going to probably happen twice. You're going to hit a wall twice before this deal actually happens...

I think it's significantly better just to make money on the Internet, and then all your free time, go get a hobby. Because if you go and talk to a blue-collar worker, they sure as hell don't want to be there.

I heard this Naval quote, which was 'Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imagined tomorrow.'

If you have a big podcast, that means you're famous, but you're only famous amongst nerds, which is kind of the not annoying way to be famous.

The most fun interaction... is when you meet with somebody, you want nothing from them, and you need nothing from them. Like, those are the best interactions with people.

I changed my opinion to... any deal that I have, it's going to happen to it will not happen, but I will act as if it's going to but just assume it's not going through; and then, if it does, I will be happy because most fall through.

Last Saturday, I drove 20 minutes to return a spatula to Target for $7.