The founder of Couchsurfing on optimizing for impact
“Life is a precious thing. Life is an opportunity. I want to experience as much life as possible with the time I’m given with the other amazing people of this world. To do that one of the most important things is to have trust. You can’t go on one of these epic adventures, epic surfing of couches, building epic companies without trust. Epic experiences generally go along with cooperating with other humans. You can’t get as far unless you dare to cooperate. And cooperation is a trust exercise.” We were on our way to Burning Man in a far corner…