All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better
Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.
Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it.
I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
You can't spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I've been trying.
Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.