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I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

I live a fairly simple life, and that didn't change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didn't buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.

I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.

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

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.