My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world.

Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. 'Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.' Opportunities -- the good ones -- are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you.

As a kid growing up, this was sometimes a little bit intimidating to have a mom who was always, like, speaking up and always saying something that might be kind of controversial . . . . The thing I think that we got out of that that was really good was, like, we weren't afraid to make waves.

There are unlimited opportunities for display advertising. In fact, we're in the process of massive change in the display industry - how it's bought, how it's sold, and how it's targeted.

The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science