Be the signal in the noise. Champion feelings like pride, empathy, passion, nostalgia, and love that are swirling here today and values like fairness, opportunity, and community that can never be automated. Be heroes for humanity.

When I was first getting my bearings out in the industry, I definitely was intimidated. I was scared to ask to be the producer in the room for sessions. I was nervous to assert my vision. bow, with experience and success, I feel more confident in navigating those situations.

Everybody told me it was nuts to go and try to reproduce the mysterious complexities that occur in a cell-free extract. I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

Enjoy the process. Trust the process. Live in the moment and enjoy every game. Embrace the setbacks because they prepare you for life.

On Taxi to the Dark Side, I needed to go to Afghanistan. I basically had two choices. One was to hire a huge security detail. Armed guards. Or go extremely bare bones. One person with a camera in a bag. So I put a camera in a bag and I went to Afghanistan alone.

When you start a company in an industry you don't know anything about at 24 with no degree, the only way to get by is to act like you’ve been there before. You need to believe in yourself when no one else does. You need to believe in what you’re doing when no one else cares.