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.

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time.

In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

I grew up in the dark ages, pre-digital, when everyone would wait for a magazine each month to see these models who became legendary and iconic, like Kate Moss.