In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

The only regrets I have are rather prosaic - like I wish I went for a swim in the Pacific.

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.