I'm an engineer by training.
My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
My father was an electrical engineer. He's presently 92 and still could be holding down a job. He had a very analytical way of looking at things, and I enjoyed that very much. I think that was a very large influence.
I am not a politician. I am an engineer who has spent most of his career working in factories that manufacture the world's most advanced devices.
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
I started my career in the U.S. military. Traditionally, in the military... you either start with a technical background or a more leadership-focused one. I took the leadership path.
My dad used to build computers for the U.S. government, for military intelligence. So he always had computers around the house.
I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.
You don't have to be a genius mathematician to have a career in cyber security, but it certainly helps to be a strong mathematician.
I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?
My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.
I grew up as a computer scientist, and I've always been fascinated by algorithms.
We need business leaders who have a respect for technical issues even if they don't have technical backgrounds. In a lot of U.S. industries, including cars and even computers, many managers don't think of technology as a core competency, and this attitude leads them to farm out technical issues.
When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.
As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
I really appreciate crafts. I like cooking. I love food and drink. I love owning that through Instagram. Although that can be challenging at times because it doesn't fit people's stereotypes of a technical founder.
I've always focused on technology and growth and don't have the core competency to do liability management - I'm a mechanical engineer.
Being a scientist/engineer by nature, I approach everything as a problem.
I went - I had designed - in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job.
I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from an early age was interested in technology and engineering.
I didn't do programming language stuff in college at all.
I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.
I would say that there's definitely some advantages with me being able to talk shop with some of the effects people. Because I come from a post-production world, I can speak shorthand with them. I don't think many other actors can say that and know how the process 100% works.
