I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us. |
You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation. |
The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard. |
There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet. |
You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside. |
People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success. |
See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool. |
I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture. |
I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it. |
I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist. |