Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

A Man Who Never Leaves, Can Never Come Back.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.