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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.

I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

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

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 always went to school, and when I was working, I had tutoring every day. I still had a childhood.

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

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