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

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

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.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

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

What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?

With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?