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

Innovation accelerates and compounds.

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

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.

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.

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