I built my very first plain HTML website when I was 25, I spent the next year learning software on my own while bartending. In the intervening 9 years I worked

I built my very first plain HTML website when I was 25, I spent the next year learning software on my own while bartending. In the intervening 9 years I worked at both corporate and boutique software companies, I started a software shop in Sydney that has a successful kiosk product (installed in 90+ malls in Australia and the US). I moved to NYC, sold my share in the old company and my newest startup is just starting to generate revenue. Last week I was at Harvard where I watched the awards ceremony for an Innovation Challenge—which I was invited to judge. A humbling experience, I might add, those kids are bloody amazing. I'm a high school dropout and I'm completely self taught. I'm not where some people are, and I'm certainly not wealthy (yet), but I'm quite happy with the trajectory of my life, having just turned 34.