The Idea That Maybe You Don't Have

I Do Think That People Have An Obligation To Give Back But That Doesn't Necessarily Mean That You Give Back Just The Traditional Way. Maybe There's New Ways To Give Back And Make A Contribution. I'm Looking Forward To Some Mix Of Philanthropy - Maybe Through A Somewhat Different Prism - As Well As Helping Entrepreneurs Build Some Significant New Businesses.

At Aol, We Thought The Killer App Was People

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.

It's Actually A Relatively Small Number Of People That Really Are Those Risk Takers, And A Relatively Small Number Of People That End Up Really Having An Impact On The World, And It Doesn't Take A Lot Of People. We Said, 'well, Rather Than Just Sit By And Wait, Or Fold Our Tent And Go Do Something Else, Let's Keep At It. Maybe We Can Be The Ones Who Can Figure This Out,' And Eventually We Were.

I'm Not Sure I Knew What An Entrepreneur Was When I Was Ten, But I Knew That Starting Little Businesses And Trying To Sell Greeting Cards Or Newspapers Door-to-door Or Just Vending Machine Kind Of Thing Is.. There's Just Something Very Intriguing To Me About That.