Om Malik Quotes

When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.

The only way to make podcasting a real big business would be if you could somehow get the top seven podcasters to team up and make a mega-network.

As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.

Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM.

Word of mouth now has a unprecedented influence because it spreads so far and so fast.

In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant.

I see business as an ecosystem.

The sharing economy is out of the bag - and it's not going to go back in.

If you look at all the companies I've been involved with - Flickr, Etsy, Findery - communities are a significant part of them. Connecting people to each other, user-generated content, building interactions. That's what I've cared about most.

The world has flipped upside-down. It used to be a pyramid of authority; now it's upside down. The influence actually rests with the mid-level people, who speak peer-to-peer. If they're for you, you win.

A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker.

The migration to more of a developer-powered economy is actually truer to our vision, which is a platform for user-generated content driven by our community.

Crowdsourcing is the future. However, if you don't trust your users to build/create/upload awesome work, they won't trust you with their crowd capital.

The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

People will support that which they help to create.