Businessman

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Anybody can be ambitious.

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

I think Twitter is great.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

Profit per se is not my motive.

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

I exercise most days.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

No, I'm not running for office someday.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.