The goal here is to triple the lifespan of human beings. We can't have triple the natural resources, so we need to be more efficient.

Single-use wearables are tough to sustain from a user perspective.

IndieBio's capital, facilities, and deep mentoring by a network of biotech-specific experts have the potential to spawn the Google, Facebook, and Instagrams of biology.

The world has a huge number of trillion-dollar problems wanting to be solved, and biology is the only way to do that.

I'm a person who always wanted to turn my life into an archive. Social media made my dream come true.

If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry.

It is easy to fall into despair thinking about all that is wrong with the world. The joys seems so small in comparison. Internet videos of cats riding Roombas just can't compete with a father talking about how his dead 13-year-old son had wanted to be a pilot.

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.