“We may wish that it wasn’t necessary to be as resilient and willing to take as much humiliation and frustration as does to succeed with a start-up. But if the cause is important enough, then hopefully seeing it through is a worthwhile ‘payment’ in return for the emotional tax that's required.” Dr Mark Thompson

This is a conversation with Dr Mark Thompson. Mark is the World’s #1 Leadership Coach for Transformational Growth, Team Engagement and Driving Change, according to the American Management Association. He is New York Times bestselling author, a columnist for Forbes.com, Inc.com and FastCompany.com. Mark was as an early investor in Facebook and Netflix.

In our conversation, Mark talked about why laughter is good for business, why he is starting to love the sharing economy and why people always listen to Elon Musk’s ideas.