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I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii
I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
At AOL, we thought the killer app was people
We don't want to turn the TV into a computer.
The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.
From a relatively early age I got interested in business
From a relatively early age I got interested in business.
It's not about how to get started; it's about how to get noticed.
You really need to believe that you are on to something important.
At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.
It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have
Anything is possible if you put your mind to it and you really work hard.
Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.
The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.
In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.
What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.
My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor
I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.
Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.
My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.
I like ... what I characterize as more built-to-last ideas rather than built-to-flip ideas.
Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home
Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.
All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.
So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.
I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.
Disruption is about risk-taking. But then you become a Fortune 500 company, which is about risk mitigation
So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.
If you don't have both of them working together in a complementary, cohesive way, you're not going to be successful.
Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.
It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.
There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.
I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.
The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate
The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.
You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.
I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start
I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.
I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start.
Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.
It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.
I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line.
I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
[On swinging for the fences] Ultimately, you have the potential to build a significant business with the potential to have a positive impact on millions of people's lives.
I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness