I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.

It's actually a relatively small number of people that really are those risk takers, and a relatively small number of people that end up really having an impact on the world, and it doesn't take a lot of people. We said, 'Well, rather than just sit by and wait, or fold our tent and go do something else, let's keep at it. Maybe we can be the ones who can figure this out,' and eventually we were.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

I do think that people have an obligation to give back but that doesn't necessarily mean that you give back just the traditional way. Maybe there's new ways to give back and make a contribution. I'm looking forward to some mix of philanthropy - maybe through a somewhat different prism - as well as helping entrepreneurs build some significant new businesses.

The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.

From a relatively early age I got interested in business