My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.

History has shown that incumbents tend to fight trends that challenge established ways and, in the process, lose focus on what matters most: customers.

We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap, that good things will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that's what we're seeing.

I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.

Vlogging is something that's pretty entertaining. But like with a lot of social media, I just feel it's so easy to stop living your life, even though you're creating all these moments.

Whenever journalism students ask me what they should be doing, I say that if you're on social media, you should be following a ton of people that you don't necessarily agree with just to get their perspectives.

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

We wrap ourselves up in social media and fame and forget what matters.