After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.

I hated being a public company CEO.

The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.

No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.