I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.

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

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.

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

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high

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

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.