My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

At AOL, we thought the killer app was people

I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.

What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.

If you can build a company and make money, great. But eventually, my intention is to give all my money away. I told my kids that. [Wealth] is not particularly helpful to kids. It's almost a burden. It's better to allow them to do their own thing and have their own successes.