So My Degree Was In Political Science,

I Think It Took Us Nine Years To Get One Million Subscribers To Aol, And Then In The Next Nine Years We Went From One Million To 35 Million.

It's Silly For Me To Raise Expectations Too Much, But I Think I'm Right On The Basic Trend, Which Is Shifting Power To Consumers.

And So The Idea Was, Well Maybe You Can Take An Atari Video Game Machine, Where People Plug In A Game Cartridge, And Plug In A Modem, And Tie That Into A Telephone, And Essentially Turn That Game In The Machine Into An Interactive Terminal.

We Need That Same Mentality In Philanthropy, Trying Things, Taking Risks, Recognizing The First Try, Maybe The Second Try, Maybe The Third Try Won't Work. But If You Stay At It And You're Learning, You're Talking To Others, And You're Learning Together, Eventually You'll Break Through And See The Kind Of Impact You Were Hoping For.

The Resources You Happen To Accumulate, What Do You Do With Them? You Can Spend The Money And Buy Some Houses Or Whatever, And People Do Some Of That And That's Fine. You Can Give The Money To Other People, Your Family, But Usually When You Do That You Screw Them Up And It Ends Up Counterproductive. Or, You Take Those Resources And Reinvest Them In Things That You Believe In, And That Could Be Reinvesting In A Philanthropic Cause.