He says when he was 14 he got an Apple II, and he set up a bulletin board system, before CompUServe and AOL. He says he saw the power of sharing.

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We also saw a huge opportunity, everyone had ideas about how the financial system could be improved, but the power to do something with those ideas seemed to be held by a few.

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