You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.
You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.
I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.
You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.
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.
People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month.
It's very rare that publications double their frequency.
Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.