A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.'

The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.