When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

If you look at any of the big companies, whether it is IBM or L'Oreal, they have a corporate religion and corporate self-image that makes it very difficult for them to execute in different areas.

In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

The whole thing reminds me of graduate school seminars, except these people are smart and funny and have something interesting to say.

In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.