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As a young kid, Matt and his family traveled a lot. He had been to nearly 100 countries, where he got to see poverty and inequality, among other things. Fast-forward to his adulthood, while working for HBS in Kenya, Matt saw saw how remittances could elevate people from poverty and enable opportunities. Kenya was already using mobile phones to transform their financial landscape, and it made a lot of sense to make the concept available to the world. As smart phone adoption continued to grow, so did Remitly.

A big misconception is that science is just a big pile of facts. Science is actually a process and a way of thinking. Gathering facts is only a piece of it, not the ultimate goal.

The target must be safe, a witness must be safe, and then the child doing the mean and cruel activity must be dealt with even if that means delayed justice.

Walker states how easy it is for us to be stuck in patterns. The plan is acknowledge, reflect, and plan. He does not recommend people to do all three in one sitting because it’s better done over time and to work with others so you are held accountable.

Think and make decisions. Everything else, such as the execution, you don’t get graded on by others.

Dan Mall does it like this -- Nine months total. First three months are completely unpaid, focused on learning. Next three months are paid, focused on practicing those skills on low-risk tasks. Last month, apprentices work on their master projects and look for their next gig. Dan does not employ them, but he helps to enable their next adventure.

Anthony was at first scared to scale the company and to implement all sorts of changes that shifted a lot of his tasks onto other people, but after doing so, he said it was the best decision.

If they did not have a bigger team, or promoted key people into leadership, it would have been a lot harder for the two business partners to step aside and to spend time with their family. But now, the business is better off and thriving !

Chamath think this is a great time to reset your view of the world.

Chamath: "I think conspicuous consumption is unimportant, helping each other is important taking unnecessary vacations because it drives your instagram follower feed is fucking stupid, making sure that we can contribute the incremental dollar we have so that other people could get tested and get back to work, that's a good use of money."

Jeff talks about the importance of choose a category that is important enough to consumers they will pay for it. He also talks about the importance of having a role within a company that is close to revenue so you have a scoreboard to track.

She wants all her users to end up building companies in the mixed reality space. She wants them to be able to do that with the skills they learned from Kai XR.

Pat shares how his constant search for new challenges drove him from working at corporates to launching his own startup.