What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sunset, Cape Town, surfing, dolphins, friends. All at once.
What person from history would you have dinner with?
Seneca. Steaks with garlic butter at Maison Francois.
What is your greatest fear?
Sharing my greatest fear with the whole world.
What is your greatest ambition, and what motivates you to pursue it?
Freedom and joy. They always deliver.
Which living person do you most admire?
I think admiration starts at death: Henry David Thoreau.
Where or who do you get your energy from?
Sharing ideas with entrepreneurs, creators and innovators - solving old problems with new thinking.
Sharing ideas with entrepreneurs, creators and innovators - solving old problems with new thinking
How do you decide what to celebrate?
The availability of Champagne.
What do you look for when interviewing someone for a job?
Energy, clarity and a proven ability to drive success. I stole these from Microsoft's Satya Nadella. They're so good and true.
What is your current state of mind?
Optimistic, opportunistic, confident in my ability.
Which talent would you most like to have?
Calligraphy.
How would you like to be remembered?
By what I did, not what I said. By how I made people feel.
If you were to be stuck on a desert island, what music, book, and item would you take?
Music: Keith Jarrett's Köln concert from 1975. Book: Walden. Item: fishing rod that doubles as a lighter.