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One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

— David Ulevitch

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

— Gordon Bell

I was extremely curious growing up. I taught myself how to sew, French braid, and cook. When I wasn't creating things with my hands, I was learning more about tech. I was experimenting with email at nine, had my first cell phone at 13, and was truly obsessed with the Internet as a teenager.

— Brit Morin

My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem.

— Obiageli Ezekwesili

I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.

— John Stumpf

I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.

— Audrey MacLean

I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

— Bill Rancic

✗Opposing Perspectives

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

— Barbara Corcoran

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

— David Geffen

As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

— Ryan Holmes