Taking risks gives me energy.
In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.
Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.
Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.
Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.
One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.
It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well.