Joe Kraus Quotations

I would argue that definitely they have the best talent. They invest so much because the more great talent you have, the easier it is to attract even more great talent.

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.

I think it's very difficult to be a successful Internet company that isn't based in Silicon Valley.

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.

The town loves us. It's sad that we have to sever that union.

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.

This is an issue where consumers are at risk of ceding control on how they listen to music to the powerful entertainment industry,

They've been buying dark fibre for a good five years. It allows them to have such cheap communications between all their data centres,

They've been buying dark fiber for a good five years. It allows them to have such cheap communications between all their data centers,

They tend to acquire interesting technologies that they help water and fertilize, not necessarily products that are already successful.

Creating a familiar and comfortable place for people to visit time and again has always been important to Excite.

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!

So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you’re going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That’s one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.

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.

Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.

Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.

Set measurable goals, measure relative to competition.

The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.

Don't forget to balance optimism with fact and belief with reality.

Any time you build a company designed to be sold, you ultimately get less value if it's sold.

Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.