The most important thing is to get on the right horse.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.

Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition

I enjoy not being a public company.

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!