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

At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate.

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

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.