I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

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.

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.