If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.

The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.

Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn't actually need better-quality search. I think we've got good enough search.

When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'

You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.

Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.

After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.

Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.

CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.

I learned from my past.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.

Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone.

I really think the Uberfication of everything is a trend that I didn't expect to be coming this fast. I mean, every single thing you want to do in your life, people are building services to take all the pain out.

You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.

As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.