One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

I did not want to write just another business book.

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