As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief.

An idea that can change the course of the company can come from anywhere.

I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.

As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief.

There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.

The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting. One is the realization that I stood at this pulpit and delivered a reading for my own graduation...15 years ago. Unexpectedly, I'm old.