“Just showing up is huge. You never know what's gonna happen. Be bold and take a risk. It's so easy to reach out to somebody. Where I am now is a result of all these little interactions that I never could have predicted.”

“My dad just encouraged me to try stuff. He would say, ‘There's always going to be a bunch of paths in front of you, and you should try going down them and see what sticks and what you like.’ Walking down a path isn't a huge commitment. It sometimes feels like it is, but it isn't.”

“I'm not going to let go of excellence, but it doesn't have to be perfect. There's a difference.”

“I found myself not really liking the work. I loved having done it, and being proud of the work. But I didn't like the actual doing. The idea is one thing, but the day to day is another. We are the sum of our days. And if we're miserable each day, we're going to be miserable. One of the things I look for when hiring is intrinsic motivation. One of my favorite interview questions is, ‘What gets you excited to get out of bed in the morning?’ I love hearing how people answer that question.”

“If I'm struggling to make a decision, I look at our core values. If we have a company culture that’s resilient, and is a shared set of values, as long as somebody on my team is living those values, I'm going to back them 100 percent.”

“There's a cartoon that’s, like, two panes. One side says ‘What people think success is.’ It's just a graph of a straight diagonal line, going up right with an arrow. The next pane is ‘What success really looks like’—a squiggly line going all the way around until you finally get to the top corner. It's very messy. If you're constantly comparing yourself to others, you're only seeing that straight line.”