Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a mass market that large-scale manufacturing which involves very substantial expenditures can be justified.
At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.
It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is.
We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.
One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.
The small-market teams should know I've always been with them.
China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
I've played in small markets; I've played in big markets. For me, basketball is inside the arena. It doesn't recognize what market you're in. It's about wins and losses, and that's the way I approach it.
I like the PC market. It's a big market, but it's a very volatile market as well.
Honestly, I think I have some of the biggest partners being in a small market, and I think it doesn't really matter: you can accomplish anything if you have the right people around you and be driven.
The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.
I'm a very commonsense guy - I just look at the viability of the idea, if I feel the team has the ability to execute the idea. I also look at the investment syndicate, the size of the market, and then a lot of gut married on top of it.
Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.
China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
I don't know if it's a small-market thing or not, but we never get the benefit-of-the-doubt calls like New York, L.A., Miami and the big market teams. That's just the way it is.
With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases.
Market size, particularly when you're dealing with major media markets, has an impact in terms of gathering attention.
There are a handful of legacy clubs like the Dodgers in each league. They're in major markets and have a history of winning where, if you do things right, there's an enormous upside.
The music industry is very small.
You also really want to take the time to think about how the market is going to evolve.You need a market that's going to be big in 10 years.
Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.
The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest player.
In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.
We really don't look at our competitors. The market is big. If you focus too much on competitors, you can lose focus on the customer. If we make our customers happier, we are going to win.
