And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.

I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

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

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.

Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.