Innovation doesn't come from the big company. It never has and never will. Innovation is something new that looks crazy at first glance. It comes from the 19-year-olds and the start-ups that no one's heard of.

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.

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

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

Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day

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.