I started a new company in 2005 called Jellyfish. Why the name? Well, jellyfish are cute and sort of silly, but there’s a deeper meaning. Jellyfish can’t locomote. They can’t choose their own course. They can go up a little, and they can go down a little, but to get anywhere laterally—to go from point A to point B—they have to trust the current. For a jellyfish, long-range planning is an act of extreme hubris. Lunacy, really. And so it is for me. I believed I could change the world, and the weight of that belief almost crushed me. But guess what—apart from God, I can do nothing. I can’t get
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