I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.
As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.
I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.
When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.
The only thing I didn't like as a kid was I was required to do a minimum of 3 hours of schoolwork every day, and there was a tutor on set.
It was a blast. I was doing everything that teenagers do and everything people in their twenties do. I was playing as hard as I was working, which was an effort to really balance my life.
I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.
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.
I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.