I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We should have more invention.
I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.
I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.
When I was 22, I realised I wanted to be an inventor.
I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.