I'm tired, but I'm having a great time. I think that's sort of the common answer that anybody in Silicon Valley has. I've never had more fun. I've never been more tired!

I have a hard time believing that they can buy a company with 2,000 people and make it work. The notion of buying a gigantic company with a lot of cash is a very risky proposition.

They've been buying dark fiber for a good five years. It allows them to have such cheap communications between all their data centers,

It's generally due to the Internet boom. It's due to both companies like Excite@Home who are further along in their life cycle as well as the second, third, fourth generation startup companies that surround Excite@Home.

They've been buying dark fiber for a good five years. It allows them to have
such cheap communications between all their data centers,

I think it's very difficult to be a successful Internet company that isn't based in Silicon Valley.