I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.