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I am a Medicare-for-all public option proponent.
Technology can create needs even as it addresses them.
Intellectual capital drives financial capital and growth.
The benefits of a universal basic income overall are huge.
Mistakes are acceptable if they're the result of moving forward.
FOMO (fear of missing out) is the enemy of valuing your own time.
One thing I disliked about being a lawyer was billing for my time.
People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.
Freelancers generally want as friction-free an engagement as possible.
Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.
As a society, we can't hide from the future; we have to build and own it.
I've always taken pride in relating to the underdog or little guy or gal.
What good is a high GDP if some, or even many, Americans are left behind?
I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.
If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.
If you can't pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.
After getting a law degree, I spent five unhappy months as a corporate attorney.
We need to provide all areas of the country with access to high-quality medical care.
I spent five years running Manhattan GMAT helping young people get into business school.
If a company is growing, then people's roles often grow and change, and opportunities abound.
I've always believed that talking about something is not the same as doing something about it.
After graduating from Brown, I went to law school and became a corporate lawyer in New York City.
It might be a lot easier to take risks if you're part of a group who will look out for one another.
I'm a capitalist, and I believe that universal basic income is necessary for capitalism to continue.
Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.
The best policymakers know that in start-ups, as in politics, not everything works out exactly as planned.
Technology companies tend to operate in winner-take-all spaces and thus adopt a very high-commitment culture.
Before Starbucks, there wasn't as much of a coffeehouse routine; we generally drank really cruddy diner coffee.
What was a profitable business in one era can become a public utility and a recognized public good in the next.
One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.
Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.
Unfortunately, hardworking, academically gifted young people are kind of lazy when it comes to determining direction.
Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.
Every entrepreneur doesn't need to be technical - there are plenty of opportunities out there for people who aren't coders.
If we create enough new companies, there will be additional opportunities for people at every rung of the educational ladder.
We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.
If you go deep into a problem, you'll find most all of the time that there are yet more problems to be solved from the ground up.
I wear a suit most days, in part because it's suitable for any type of meeting and in part because it takes the thought out of it.
Asking the government to fix our economy is like asking an editor to fix a movie, but in this case, the editor's not even of one mind.
In a professional service environment, you often work on one engagement or deal after another, with one ending before the next begins.
In my experience, entrepreneurship tends to be kind of cumulative, like a layer cake. Taking some time away can make it hard to rev up.
Starting a company is rough. It's even harder when you're young - I know this firsthand, because my first company flopped when I was 25.
At Venture for ,we've worked with hundreds of aspiring young entrepreneurs who want to build businesses and change things for the better.
I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.
In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.
The monetary market is going to value people's time less and less as time goes on, so you need another way to structure their day that rewards them.
Retail businesses have narrow margins. If you cut off a flow of young consumers, it's only a matter of time before the businesses struggle and fail.
The vast majority of small business owners want nothing to do with figuring out a website. They are neck-deep in their business trying to keep it going.
The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is push my dog off of me. He likes to sleep on top of me. I think it's because I'm warm and breathing.
The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies in the face of reality.