I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.

My goal is there's a new generation of cars. And people can say we're living in a new day and age. A new day and age of cars that are beautiful, affordable, safe, and of course every car gets over 100 mpg, why wouldn't it.

By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.