I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn’t see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn’t tell people.
We’re living at a time when attention is the new currency: With hundreds of TV channels, billions of Web sites, podcasts, radio shows, music downloads and social networking, our attention is more fragmented than ever before.
I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.
Creating the future is incredibly exciting. When you talk about ideas and creativity, it’s really about having that vision in your mind of how the world could be better, of how it could be a brighter place.
Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.
Talk to people no one else is talking to.
The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone’s passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don’t get the best work from people if you’re guiding them versus them guiding themselves.
You have a responsibility when you have a large community.
Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.
I don’t have a TV or watch movies. I don’t like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.
I think you’re going to see tech bringing efficiencies to businesses that aren’t pure tech.
We are all more connected than ever. That connectivity builds tolerance.
What I’m interested in are tools that can assist people to do the things they’re really good at.
Always, in your career and personal life, be evolving with technology.
My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.
You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.
If it doesn’t come through the Internet, it’s not really compelling to me.
We’re living at a time when attention is the new currency.
The more people you know from different backgrounds, the more tolerant you feel of different ways of living, and the closer you feel to the issues that those people have.
Now, two things happen. One is, people know people, whether that’s on Facebook or Twitter. They feel closer to the event. Secondly, people see other people doing something about it.