Every Big Problem Is A Big Opportunity.

The Right Way To Build A Company Is To Experiment In Lots Of Small Ways, So That You Have Plenty Of Room To Make Mistakes And Change Strategies.

If I Collected All The Diamonds In The World, I'd Have No 'income' But I'd Have A Lot Of 'assets'. Would My Company Be Worth Nothing Because I Have No Income? A Lot Of Net Companies Are Collecting Assets. They Have To Be Measured With A New Set Of Metrics.

Innovative, Bottom-up Methods Will Solve Problems That Now Seem Intractable—from Energy To Poverty To Disease. Science And Technology, Powered By The Fuel Of Entrepreneurial Energy, Are The Largest Multipliers Of Resources We Have To Solve Our Many Social Problems.

For Electric Power Generation, We Are Very Optimistic About Solar-thermal Technology, And We’re Intrigued By The Potential Of Enhanced Geothermal Energy To Replace Coal-based Power Generation. Traditional Carbon Capture And Sequestration-based Coal Power Generation Is Somewhat Unlikely To Be Competitive.

I Generally Disagree With Most Of The Very High Margin Opportunities. Why? Because It's A Business Strategy Tradeoff: The Lower The Margin You Take, The Faster You Grow.