At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks.
When you’re dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn’t, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it’s really really hard to predict those. I don’t believe anyone can.
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.
Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.
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.