Troy Carter Quotes

Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business.

The best companies are the ones that offer their products for free.

If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities.

You can't replicate Seamless or OpenTable for another industry.

Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.

Digital companies can reach new customers immediately and at virtually zero marginal cost. They can compete in new sectors by collaborating with peers and competitors. They can massively improve quality and productivity by converging technologies and sources of data.

The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their legacy infrastructure and costs will keep them from getting there.

The Yahoo story is still being written.

The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.

It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

I have always been very tech-focused, which you may almost say is the traditional CEO in Silicon Valley.

Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.

When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution.

The way customers relate to brands and how profit is generated has changed so dramatically almost every professional is being challenged to reconsider what they do in order to stay relevant.

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives.

Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.

The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our own infrastructure. And we have to inter-connect to the public Internet.