When I was growing up, I had lots of smart classmates that were girls, but none of us were really pushed into math or computers or anything like that. Girls took AP history and AP English and AP European history. And boys took calculus and physics.

The world is diverse, and having a professional team that mirrors the world is going to be more helpful for us.

There's an opportunity to make your board - and your company - smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender.

If a firm hasn't hired a single female partner in its history, I don't think it will finally happen by accident.

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.