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There are a lot of good ideas that could benefit from big media. You have a lot of companies that hit a wall and can't get beyond a certain level. They need the infrastructure and distribution of a large company.

If you could position the best platform media company around the world with the best content, we could get explosive growth.

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.

I really do think we're going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we're starting to see the effects at the editorial level, and it's all bad. This increased pressure for profits every quarter, smaller news hole, less coverage of important stuff - the extent that it's become one giant infotainment industry.

Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen.

Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.

Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.

We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources.

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.