I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

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

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.

When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

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

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.