Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
I am the unhappiest WordPress user in the world, I think it sucks.
Simplicity not simplistic.
I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.
The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age. Its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.