We're Very Focused In On Outcomes For

No. 1 Thing Is That Life Is Just Not As Interrupt-driven As When You're Running A Company.

Almost Three Years Ago, When I Retired, My Wife And I Were Talking About Our Philanthropic Work And How Does One Help Give Opportunity, Particularly To Kids Growing Up In Very Disadvantaged Situations.and My Initial Kind Of Sense Was, The Government Does That Primarily, And What We Should Mostly Do Is Pay Our Taxes. My Wife Said, No, I Don't Think That's Quite Right For Us. We Need To Do More. We Can Do Better.

We Can Believe That We Know Where The World Should Go. But Unless We're In Touch With Our Customers, Our Model Of The World Can Diverge From Reality. There's No Substitute For Innovation, Of Course, But Innovation Is No Substitute For Being In Touch, Either.

Computer Science Is The Operating System For All Innovation.

The Company I Invested In Is Probably A Leader In That Area. They're A Company Called Second Spectrum, Which Happens To Be Based In La But Was Started By Two Usc Computer-science Professors. It's Filled With Guys Who Love Sports, Who Played Sports, But Really Look Like Programmers.