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.

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 stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.

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.

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.

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

And I love writing. I've always loved writing.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process.

It's very rare that publications double their frequency.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.

Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.