My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also a few others, helped kind of instill in me, thinking thoughts about how life is meaningful in terms of how we all kind of live in a network of people and how you interact with those people is part of what makes life essentially meaningful and then kind of concepts to think about, how do you add value to other people's lives? How do they add value to yours? And how do you kind of form a community together in the network?

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.

So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.

Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.

You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.