Board meetings should not be for the benefit of the board. They should be for the benefit of the CEO and the senior team.

Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.

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.

You simply can't be tentative in a startup. You have to go for it at every chance you get. And if the leader of the organization is anxious, his or her fear pervades the organization. Everything comes from the top in a company. So if you are starting a company or building one, face your fears and move past them. It's critically important to your company.

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

I believe the mobile OS market will play out very similarly to Windows and Macintosh, with Android in the role of Windows. And so if you want to be in front of the largest number of users, you need to be on Android.