I've had people tell me, 'Thanks for helping me walk with confidence,' including businessmen walking into business meetings.

It's for Joe Public, not Joe Louis.

He's one extreme case where he wants to fight. We have other guys who follow boxing and love the sport and want to see what it's like and enhance their viewing pleasure. It's kind of a good experience.

He helped me build my confidence. It was little things he has random meetings in the year to talk about grades, girls and life. He's definitely like a father figure.

When people report that consumer confidence and business confidence are down, those things have less to do with the fundamental state of the economy than with this kind of funk, this uncertainty, this uneasy feeling. So anything [the government] does to say, 'Look, we understand, try this remedy' -- I'm all for anything like that.

My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn’t matter if you’re 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That’s why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.