Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.

Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.

There's this myopia among American venture capitalists to not go anywhere beyond Silicon Valley and New York.

The people really are what make New York City great.

I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.

I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.