Michael Slavin

Founder, I'm sure you know, of Y Combinator.

I just love his essays.

They're very rich, insightful, and he says some good stuff.

You know, it's not too sexy, but I love Dropbox.

You know, I used to, but my wife with Parkinson's, it's very difficult for her.

And we will get and we'll stay in bed seven or eight hours.

But, you know, she'll wake up, be very uncomfortable every couple of hours.

So I'm up about every two hours, every night.

And fortunately, I can fall asleep real quickly.

I can even sleep on the back of a tank in the rain.

So it's pretty easy for me to go right back to sleep.

Last question, Michael.

I don't think anybody is going to be able to use this, but when I was 20, I was a senior at West Point.

That was 1974, 75.

And I was very focused on my military career.

It's all I wanted to do.

And our technical computer training was absolutely state of the art.

And I remember working on the mainframe and my punch cards and doing simple programs.

But I wish I had told myself to pay attention and learn everything I could about technologies that developed.

I wish I had known then the role a computer is going to have today so I could have really spent time studying that stuff while I was pursuing my career in the military.