Occupation: Entrepreneur Birth: July 9, 1971
The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, rem….
Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't..
If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it ….
You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both..
I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys..
If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus ….
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take ov….
At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks..
People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look arou….
One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it..
When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to….
The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more….
Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie..
Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any tim….
I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up.
Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks..
People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing app….
So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection..
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so….
Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disrupti….
The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient..