meet thomas yao. hacker turned entrepreneur. money to build what he calls an open-source sharing platform to connect chinese college students with the world. >> when you say hacking, what is, what do you do when you hack? what's the intent? >> actually, it starts from m.i.t. if you go to the artificial intelligence, it will show you the definition of hack. it's actually a very positive word, but it became a very negative one. so the word hacker as you describe, people who are really like programming, they love to share information, just like cooking. you love to share recipes to your friends who love cooking as well. >> legally, there might be something wrong with it. but morally, is there anything wrong with essentially breaking into information base? >> yes. >> i'm not doing anything. i'm going to go in, look around, see how things work and i'll leave without disturbing anything. would most hackers say that's okay? >> yes. >> in the service of knowledge? >> okay for most the hackers in our communities. i was lucky. i got into