It may be easier than ever to start a product, but building a company is just as hard as its ever been.

One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.

Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.

Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world.

Stop looking at the Web as merely a display opportunity and not a way to interact. That does not create a new business model, it just shifts one that isn't growing and is outdated. The reason sites like Google are stealing advertisers from daily newspapers is not because Google has more eyeballs. It's because Google used the interactivity of the Web to deliver a new, better way to advertise.

One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.

You can keep your privacy in the world by keeping your product, not your personality, the star.