Most People Still Steal Music.

We'll Get A Chance To Go Through This [apple Versus Microsoft Debate] Again In Phones And Music Players. There's No Chance That The Iphone Is Going To Get Any Significant Market Share. No Chance. It's A $500 Subsidized Item. They May Make A Lot Of Money. But If You Actually Take A Look At The 1.3 Billion Phones That Get Sold, I'd Prefer To Have Our Software In 60% Or 70% Or 80% Of Them, Than I Would To Have 2% Or 3%, Which Is What Apple Might Get.

I Didn't Leave Business School To Go Bankrupt.

Look At The Product Pipeline, Look At The Fantastic Financial Results We've Had For The Last Five Years. You Only Get That Kind Of Performance On The Innovation Side, On The Financial Side, If You're Really Listening And Reacting To The Best Ideas Of The People We Have.

Maybe I'm An Emblem Of An Old Era, And I Have To Move On.

The Company I Invested In Is Probably A Leader In That Area. They're A Company Called Second Spectrum, Which Happens To Be Based In La But Was Started By Two Usc Computer-science Professors. It's Filled With Guys Who Love Sports, Who Played Sports, But Really Look Like Programmers.