Make It Personal and Make It Work
So in my career, this was always really important to me. I always really wanted to work on things that mattered. I started off thinking I would never ever work in a company - like ever. Probably wrote it, told lots of people; all those embarrassing things you do when you’re younger and you're sure. Then you get older next generation, last generation transition. And you realize you never really knew and that you probably don't know now. But for me, I was sure I never wanted to work in a company because I wanted to make a difference and I wanted to make someone else's life better if I was going to go work all day. And so I started my career working on leprosy in India for the World Bank. And there's nothing like working on something like that to really make you think about what you're doing with your time, the fortune of your birth, and what you have to give back. And then later on, I worked at the U.S. Treasury Department during the Clinton years, during the Asian financial crisis. And while it wasn't the financial crisis of today that's hitting us, it was one that was hitting a lot of people and impoverishing hundreds of millions of people in some of the poorest countries of the world. So it felt very mission-based. And then I completely surprised myself by when I was leaving the government. So, if you're in the government and you're a political appointee in the United States they elect a new president. So they elect George Bush, you know George W and then they kick you out. So you have to find a new job. And I found myself really drawn to technology because when you are sitting at the Treasury looking at what was happening in the economy - and I was there from 1996 to 2000, beginning of 2001 - so you can see that amazing time that was. This is when technology really took off on the consumer's side and on the Internet side. And it just seems like the companies working out here were making a huge difference, even though they weren't non-profits. So ...
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