We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy

We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.

I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

The great companies get built by their founders

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

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired - the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later