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In school all I wanted to do was build technology. That's what I loved.

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.

I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

I love building companies; I love making products.

When I was 22, I realised I wanted to be an inventor.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.

I realised I had to work in something creative, but with a business and global element. And that I had to do it while I was still young and had an appetite for risk.