I would say the consumer Internet companies – in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it’s how all their businesses are going to run.
So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.
Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I’m one, the other is Gandhi.
The good news is we had this idea of cloud computing. The bad news is we were 10 years too early.
The multipurpose device will always fail.
The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.
All’s fair in love, war and ride-sharing.
Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn’t their ideas aren’t bold enough.
Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as ‘all of Estonia.’
I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.
I think that every technology company that’s more than 20 years old will break up.
Innovation accelerates and compounds.
The great companies get built by their founders.
When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.
One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it.
The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.
I’ve been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don’t do.
Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it’s so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.
It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn’t have written it!
You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.