Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

The CEO's job is always about leadership. It's about leadership in a vision, in terms of where you're going, it's about making sure that you have the right organization and staff, and that you have kind of clearly communicated what some of the plays are and what some of the goals are in terms of the business and how do you organize together in order to make that happen.

By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small business; how you manage your own personal career is the exact way you manage a small business. Your brand matters. That is how LinkedIn operates.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.