You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
People have paid for content. They always have.
Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.
No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
