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It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.
My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'
We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people.
We were the first people to do advertising on the Web. I actually saw in 1993 that the ad could be the content, the destination.
Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic? Lindbergh. Who was the second? No idea.
A lot of my energy is going to Code for America, Jen Pahlka's non-profit startup. We're doing a lot of great work teaching government how to... →
A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck... →
A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom... →
Amazon is increasingly dominating online commerce. People are starting their searches there, which of course threatens Google because it takes away... →
Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the... →
At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that... →
Conferences are really like parties, and an A-list party is one where A-list people are in attendance. You figure out who are the really important... →
Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup, only more so: You run... →
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