The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous.

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

I enjoy not being a public company.

I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired - the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later

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

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.