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

Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

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 exercise most days.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.