When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.
I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.
My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.
I grew up around hardware. I could sell you all the plumbing and electricity you want.
When I was 22, I realised I wanted to be an inventor.
When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.
Since I was a kid, I liked construction.
I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.
My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.
Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.