I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.
You’ve just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.
There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.
There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.
You can’t suppress creativity, you can’t suppress innovation.
You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.
Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don’t think anyone out there believes that we’re going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.
See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
The hardest part of it was really being away from my family – I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.
The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.
The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.
And I love writing. I’ve always loved writing.
Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.
Business people have been made into these rock stars because they’ve made a lot of money.
I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It’s a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.
I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we’re really at the beginning of where they’re going to take us.
I’m a history buff, and right now we’re sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.
You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock ’n roll stars.
People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.
It’s very rare that publications double their frequency.