When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.

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.

If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

I get everything that satisfies my soul from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them.