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.

It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.

Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.

There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.

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