I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.
You name it, I'm interested in a lot of things.
Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.
I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.
I exercise most days.
Anybody can be ambitious.
I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.
As a child I wanted to become an architect.
No, I'm not running for office someday.
It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.
I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.
I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.
Ads shouldn't be in people's way.
I think Twitter is great.
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.
My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.
By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.
