I guess I've always been entrepreneurial at heart - as an IT manager at a public university, the CEO of a construction company, or a co-founder of a software play. And eventually, I came to realize that it's not technology, per se, that drives me, but rather, that it allows one to extend creativity to solve problems in totally new ways.
I'm incredibly lucky to be able to say that each day of my professional life has been different from the one before it. Much has changed since the days of teaching myself BASIC on my Commodore-64 in elementary school. But, the most important thing I've learned in all the time since then is that individuals don't accomplish great things - great teams do....