>> I like creating things that I really believe in.
Creating things that I think will make a huge difference to young people,
to people or [inaudible] situations that would be --
would have been helpful to me if it existed at the time.
And seeing something come to life, like seeing something that started out as this weird,
vague idea in my head and then at the end of the day it's out there in the world
and people are using it and thousands of people are being helped
by it, that is so amazingly fulfilling.
And it gets to use a combination of my right brain and my left brain and I get
to use creativity, but I also get to think analytically about what are the tipping points
on these problems that we want to solve.
And where can I and my company be most effective at solving them?
I think the hardest part is getting used to being bad at things.
You know when you're starting a startup you have to learn all these different skills,
and you are going to suck at a lot of them at the beginning.
And getting over that hump and getting over beating yourself up and just getting to a place
where things just need to get done and you just need to try and you need to fail, and sooner
or later it will work out because hopefully it will.
But you just have to have faith that it will.
And so I think that part's hard.
I think the other part is when you're starting a new organization often you have a thing
that you really love to do.
In my case coding, creating websites, etcetera.
And once you run something you don't really get to do that thing anymore so much.
A lot of your time is leading the organization, figuring out strategy, fundraising.
And it's the stuff that tends to be less fun for founders who are passionate about the stuff
that at the end of the day their staff gets to do.
So getting used to that and getting used to finding joy in facilitating
that in others rather than having the time to do that yourself can be a challenge,
but I think it's part of the process of growing in to a leader.