The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links.

Profiles aren't journalism.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.

Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.