In 1993, my dad took out a loan to buy a computer.

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In 1993, my dad took out a loan to buy a computer. He was a government engineer in Jordan, and he didn't really have the money for it. If you'd asked him why it mattered, I don't think he could have told you. It was the first computer in our neighborhood, an IBM PC running MS-DOS. I was 6 years old, and it looked like alien technology to me. One of my earliest memories is standing behind him while he worked through this huge manual, finger-typing commands. CD. LS. MKDIR. The machine did exactly what he told it to do, and I was hooked. One day he walked into the room and found the computer in pieces. I had taken the whole thing apart, and he was furious - until I told him, wait, I know how to put it back together. That's how I learned hardware, and the software came right after. Thirty years later, I run a company built on one idea: anyone should be able to make software. My dad couldn't explain why computers mattered, but he just had a sense. Everything I've built is downstream of that loan.