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My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.

There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

Marketing is designed to bring people into something.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies.

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.