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

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

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.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

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