When I ask Clay what he would do if he couldn’t surf, he looks confused for a second, as if he’s unable to imagine such a terrifying possibility. “I don’t know,” he says. “I guess then I would just want to surf.

Clay Marzo from Liquid Cure

AMR is famous for asking me, “what would you want to do if you weren’t investing in companies”. My answer hasn’t changed for many years and when I read this quote on my flight tonight I found a bit of my own voice in Clay’s naive, but pure, answer. If I weren’t investing in, and helping entrepreneurs build, companies I guess I would just want want to be doing that instead of whatever else I was doing.