Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

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.

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 entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.

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

We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.