-: You know my major was Philosophy, Politics and
Economics (PPE) here and I really didn't have a technical
training or I didn't take any computer science classes
in school.
I just discovered a modem in 1993 right before
I was going to graduate and so ...
I'm really self taught and I really fell in love with
the internet, in the early days before the web-browser
and it was just so ...
you know addicted to it that I would spend
every free time downloading guides from the internet,
learning by doing.
It also helps when you're young and you don't really know
what you don't know.
You take a lot of chances and you take risks that maybe
later on in life you wouldn't do so that helps us
entrepreneur because if you think about any,
like all the risks involved and everything
you might not do it
so it pays to be ignorant in some respects
and a little daring maybe.
Compensate because I didn't have a technical background
and so you know I compensated that by always looking
to hire brighter, more technically gifted people than me,
and that's paid off.
It's surrounding yourself with good people.
While I definitely would have taken a computer science
class maybe programming in "C" or something that was
probably available back then but I don't have any regrets
really I think when I had to later on in my career
I took a couple of programming classes just to have that
formal training.