Hi and welcome to the A16Z podcast. Today's episode is a special conversation with Lorraine Powell Jobs,

founder and president of the Emerson Collective, a firm she founded in 2004 to drive social impact

through investments across a broad range of areas such as education, immigration, and the environment.

Lorraine Powell Jobs is interviewed by A16Z co-founder Ben Horowitz,

and their discussion covers everything from Lorene's childhood in mountainous rural New Jersey

and how it shaped her to what the Emerson Collective is driven by and does,

and why it's a collective for that matter.

For more about Lorraine Powell Jobs' work, see www.emersoncollective.com. This conversation originally took place at our most

recent summit event in November 2018. Welcome, everybody. I'm Ben. This is Lorraine. Coming in,

I was just talking to Loreen, I was saying, it's really hard to introduce her because she's not like

our other co-investors like at all in a good way,

but she's got a much more kind of complex kind of thing that she does in background.

So I could read the way I could say, well, you know, she's a media mogul, she's a tech investor,

she's an education reformer and so forth.

But you won't even know really who she is if I just did it like that.

And none of them would be really honest.

Yeah, right, exactly.

I don't think anybody would call me a media mogul except you.

What you are, a media mogul, like technically.

I'm so excited to be here, to be having this conversation because there is nobody else like this.

And so you're in for a treat.

Why don't we start at the beginning back in West Milford, New Jersey, where you grew up, you didn't

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