The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.'

I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time.

Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs.

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.