The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.
The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.
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.
See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.
Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.
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 have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.
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.
The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.
Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.
Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.
The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.
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.
And I love writing. I've always loved writing.
I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process.
It's very rare that publications double their frequency.
You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.
You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.
I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.
