If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

We are excited about Internet access in general. With better access to the Internet, people do more searches.

For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better.