A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn't sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.

I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, so I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.