They tend to acquire interesting technologies that they help water and fertilize, not necessarily products that are already successful.
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They've been buying dark fibre for a good five years. It allows them to have such cheap communications between all their data centres
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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.
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I've never seen such a competitive market for talent as in the last six months to a year. And it's funny, you think it can never get any more competitive. And yet the next year it gets that much more competitive.
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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!
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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.
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It is ironic that the Internet is a global phenomenon -- yet if you're not in Silicon Valley, it's really hard to get a sense of the pace and the connections between those companies. So many of the ideas get transferred in hallway conversations, meetings over lunch and the casual interactions of the companies that are proximate.
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I think it's very difficult to be a successful Internet company that isn't based in Silicon Valley.
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We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated.
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