Joe Kraus Quotes (10 Quotes)

They've been buying dark fiber for a good five years. It allows them to have such cheap communications between all their data centers,

Creating a familiar and comfortable place for people to visit time and again has always been important to Excite.

They tend to acquire interesting technologies that they help water and fertilize, not necessarily products that are already successful.

It's generally due to the Internet boom. It's due to both companies like ExciteHome who are further along in their life cycle as well as the second, third, fourth generation startup companies that surround ExciteHome.

I think it's very difficult to be a successful Internet company that isn't based in Silicon Valley.

The town loves us. It's sad that we have to sever that union.

I'm tired, but I'm having a great time. I think that's sort of the common answer that anybody in Silicon Valley has. I've never had more fun. I've never been more tired.

This is an issue where consumers are at risk of ceding control on how they listen to music to the powerful entertainment industry,

It is ironic that the Internet is a global phenomenon -- yet if you're not in Silicon Valley, it's really hard to get a sense of the pace and the connections between those companies. So many of the ideas get transferred in hallway conversations, meetings over lunch and the casual interactions of the companies that are proximate.

I have a hard time believing that they can buy a company with 2,000 people and make it work. The notion of buying a gigantic company with a lot of cash is a very risky proposition.