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

Anybody can be ambitious.

I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

Profit per se is not my motive.

I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.

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