Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

To me, speed is really about convenience.

If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

If you took the entire internet and laid it end to end, it would weigh more than the other thing. It would weigh more than it would if it wasn't laid end to end. Like, if it was a ball of rolled up internet it would weigh less. I'm pretty sure. It depends on the size of the scale, I think.

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.