Our five-year time horizon is what separates us from Wall Street. They can't see past the next quarter. We're looking at where industries will be in 2030.
The biggest risk is not being in these technologies when they hit critical mass. Missing the boat is a bigger risk than volatility.
Elon is doing things that matter. SpaceX matters. Tesla matters. The rest of Silicon Valley is optimizing ads.
The first step is to establish that something is possible. Then probability will occur.
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness.
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
Credit cards were designed in the 1950s. We thought maybe financial technology should actually use some technology.
We built Spark because we were frustrated users ourselves. The best companies come from people solving their own problems.
The lakehouse is not about combining two things. It's about eliminating the need to choose between them in the first place.
If you make something 100x faster, you don't just do the same things faster — you do entirely different things.
We didn't set out to build a better data warehouse. We set out to build data warehousing the way it should have been built if the cloud existed first.
Separating storage from compute sounds like a technical detail. It's actually a business model revolution.
The browser is the most powerful distribution mechanism ever created. If your product runs in the browser, everyone in the world can use it instantly.
Design is a team sport. The old model of a designer working alone in a downloaded app and then emailing a PNG was broken from day one.
The surgery itself takes about 15 minutes with the robot. The hard part is the decade of engineering that makes those 15 minutes possible.
The bandwidth between your brain and a computer is currently about 10 bits per second when you're typing on your phone. We want to make it millions.
The key to making tunnels affordable is making them smaller. A car is about 6 feet wide. Why are we boring 28-foot tunnels?
If you can't go above it and you can't go around it, go under it. Simple as that.
The hard part isn't getting to space. The hard part is making it routine and affordable enough that it actually changes civilization.
The defense industry hasn't innovated in 30 years. They build the same planes slower and more expensively. We build new things fast and cheap.
The safest car on the road is the one with nobody inside. You can't injure a passenger if there is no passenger.
We invented Stories. Then Instagram copied it. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then every app with a camera. You're welcome.
We didn't solve piracy by fighting it. We solved it by making the legal option better than the illegal one.
Agentless was the breakthrough. Security teams are exhausted from installing and maintaining agents on every server. We said: give us API access and we'll find everything without touching your infrastructure.
Cash-on-delivery was 80% of our orders in the early days. People didn't trust online payments, so we literally collected cash at the door. That's how you build e-commerce in a country without credit cards.