The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

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

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.

Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.