17 Quotes by Michael Birch

I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.

Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.

If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

The fundamentals are still sound but the stock has been priced for all their businesses to perform perfectly and we didn't see a lot more upside.