I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define.
— Robert Scoble
Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.
This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.
We are moving into a world where companies will be able to offer us products and services based on our last two hours of activity. This is both exciting and frightening at the same time.
The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.
My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course.
I do not see Windows Phones anywhere in the world except Seattle.
The problem with Microsoft is that it's so committee-driven and slow.
I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!
With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity.
At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology.
You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco.
I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of anything that's best of breed.
Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you.
There is a shirt company that is making sensors that go into your clothing. They will watch how you sit, run or ski and give data on that information.
I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.
