Listen, if there’s one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it’s that I don’t know anything about human nature. less than 1 minute read
I’m not saying I wasn’t flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. less than 1 minute read
Like everybody in show business, you think you’re going to wake up one day, and it’s all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway. less than 1 minute read
I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you’re at the top, it’s so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers. less than 1 minute read
Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn’t. less than 1 minute read
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon. less than 1 minute read
Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world. less than 1 minute read
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 me. less than 1 minute read
