I Watch Mostly Independent Films.

If The Starbucks Secret Is A Smile When You Get Your Latte... Ours Is That The Web Site Adapts To The Individual's Taste.

The Best Managers Figure Out How To Get Great Outcomes By Setting The Appropriate Context, Rather Than By Trying To Control Their People.

If You Look At Cable Networks, They Almost Always Start Licensing Content Wherever They Can, So They Can Build A Subscriber Base. But Then They Start Doing Their Own Content; It's A Pretty Well-trodden Path.

In The U.s., Hbo Is A Very Aggressive Service.

Technological Revolutions Are Very Hard To Predict. My Favourite Example Is Someone In 1850 Taking Care Of Horses As A Farrier. They Would Have Said, "look, Horses Have Been Part Of Human Existence For 5,000 Years. We Are Horse People. It's Permanent." But All Of A Sudden, The Internal Combustion Engine Comes Along And, With It, Oil Fields And Automobiles, Which Basically Replace The Horse Completely. So We Often Have These Long Periods Of Stability And Then A Sudden Inflection Point.