Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but it creates a society that, for example, allows us to invest in each other's kids, to have public education, to have both a greater society and individual freedom for creating businesses.

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

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.

That's part of the reason why we also need to focus on, how do I give to society, how do I participate in society, how do I make society a better place, because, by the way, it's good for me, but it's also good for all of us in the environment in which we live and work.

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.