In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.

My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

Sometimes the things you decide not to do are actually the biggest things to do in your career.

Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business.

As one who works inside and outside the system, I've come to understand that distribution is a key component,

You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure things out as they go along. If they fail repeatedly, then you probably have to find a different person, but if you don't let people have that opportunity to fail, they don't get to learn and grow and try things.