I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start.

When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

So I think relatively early on I probably was on a path to be more of an entrepreneur, and I think everybody in my family kind of sensed that.

Growing up on an island is a little different than most people's childhood experiences, but I really enjoyed it.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

This Atari video game platform really struck me as interesting, so I joined a company in Washington, D.C. in early 1983.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

We went from one million to 20 million subscribers in the past five years. That's great, but a billion people watch CNN.

There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.