I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies

If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.

All's fair in love, war and ride-sharing.

Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.