• Founder of internships.com
• SoldNTI Group to Blackboard
• CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA
• Founding president and COO of MP3.com
• Managing director at Tickets.com

Being a CEO

• You give credit and take pain. 
• Lead with compassion, strategy and clear set of tactics. 
• Employees do their job and you do yours, "You go to work and let (CEO) fight the fight. When chips are down, the founder must take the ball and solve problems. 
• You don't get strokes, you give strokes don't expect to get it.
• It's lonely and hard being CEO
• The only time to get credit is after victory.
• Must think of the big idea and break the company out 
• Need confidence, stubboness and guts.
• People want to work for someone to be inspired.
• Set clear expectations for employees first. 
• Invites interns/ emloyees to disagree.
• Top people aren't smarter, just may be better at the game.

Business

• The market only carries you so far in a competitive landscape; there must be a business model or something that sets you apart from competition... 
• He asked, "Who is that one client, who, if you landed would change the perception. That's CEOs job, not sales."
• It's not the idea that excites him (Robin) but if the market is fragmented. Small tech, fundamentally change industry.