I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.
I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.
I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.
When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.
I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's wear in the Northeast and wanted to investigate manufacturing in Asia. In 1972 he sent me to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for four months. I'm convinced it was his way of getting me into business, rather than letting me be a hippie.
I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.