I wear the same T-shirt every day, and I have a relatably unkempt haircut. I remind you of the smart kids from high school, so I give you hope that the future might be okay.
My company has a slogan like “Connect Everyone” or “Build Beautiful Stuff,” and I promise you that we’ll never quietly change that to something more morally ambiguous like “Do the Right Thing.”
I’m about your age. Maybe a little older. People our age are chill and socially engaged, so I support things like civil rights, access to education, and medical research. You could never imagine me sitting in the front row at the inauguration of a far-right ruler who promised to destroy those things.
Because I dropped out of Stanford to start this company, you know for sure that it’s my life’s work. I’ll always be at the helm, so the idea that I’ll hand over the company to an ex-McKinsey consultant and retire to a Hawaiian compound built on cleared forest is preposterous.
