An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.

There is the opportunity to do more and better if you're smaller and more nimble.

Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi.

When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.