1) I generally believe in trying to find the most-impactful areas to donate, and also concentrating on areas that are important to me personally, and also areas where I am uniquely suited to make a difference.  This seems like a good intersection.<p>2) A controversial thing I believe is that unless you are getting multiple percent of equity, it&#x27;s usually a bad deal to join an early-stage startup that hasn&#x27;t yet found product-market fit and the resulting growth (there is a big exception here for hard tech startups that will take a long time to produce a product but be incredibly valuable if they&#x27;re able to).<p>We&#x27;ve noticed that the best startups tend to not hire employees for awhile.  One of the reasons, it seems, is they are able to convince much better people to join once things start working.