Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.

If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.

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

Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

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