The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.

Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.

This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis - and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.