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And What We Did With This New Company In 1985 Is We Did Start Focusing On Pcs Instead Of Video Game Machines, Because We Learned The Hard Lesson About Bringing A Product To Market In A Consumer World Where It's Very Expensive To Build A Brand And Get Distribution And So Forth.

For Better Or Worse, That Is True With Any New Innovation, Certainly Any New Technological Innovation. There's Many Good Things That Come Out Of It, But Also Some Bad Things. All You Can Do Is Try To Maximize The Good Stuff And Minimize The Bad Stuff.

Disruption Is About Risk-taking. But Then You Become A Fortune 500 Company, Which Is About Risk Mitigation

We Lose Money On Signing Up The Customers Where There's Some Marketing Costs Associated With Giving Them A Free Month. It Doesn't Much Matter Whether You Make A Little Bit Or Lose A Little Bit.. As You Well Know, Because You Lose A Ton On Every Copy Of The Washington Post (newspaper).

I Think The More You Have A Generalist Perspective, I Think Sometimes The More You Can Kind Of See Through The Forest And The Trees. And When It Gets A Little Bit Cloudy, You Know, Have Some Sense Of, "well, Maybe This Might Happen Or Maybe That Might Happen." So I Really Am A Big Believer In Liberal Arts Education. I Think It's Better - Particularly In These Kind Of Uncertain Times - To Know A Little Bit About A Lot Of Things As Opposed To Being Expert In One Thing.