The Idea That Maybe You Don't Have

My Father Still Is A Lawyer, And My Mom Was A Teacher And Then Later A Career Counselor

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.

Nowadays People Seem To Switch Schools, Either Because They Have To, And Certain Schools Only Serve Certain Grades, Or Because They Move To A Different Place Or Have Some Particular Interest, But I Was In The Same School For 13 Years

When I Was Trying To Popularize The Concept Of The Internet - Ten Or 15 Years Ago - I Came Up With This Concept Of "the 5 Cs." Services Needed To Have Content, Context, Community, Commerce, And Connectivity. After That, When I Was Trying To Think Of What The Key Management Principles Were To Build Into The Culture, I Started Talking About The Ps. The P's Were Things Like Passion, Perseverance, Perspective And People. I Think The People Aspect Is Really The Most Important One.

And What We Did With This New Company In 1985 Is We Did Start Focusing On Pcs Instead Of Video Game Machines, Because We Learned The Hard Lesson About Bringing A Product To Market In A Consumer World Where It's Very Expensive To Build A Brand And Get Distribution And So Forth.