It's in my DNA. I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur at the age of six. I haven't deviated from that course since. In my life I've started, created, operated, or owned, about 17 different businesses or services; from a gaming software company, to an auction company, to radio stations, to a file host, to a web development company and so on. As is the rule of starting businesses, I've failed more often than succeeded. I started my first web business in 1995. I do what I'm most passionate about. I held a regular ISP job when I was 19 - it sucked. I haven't had a normal sleep schedule since I founded a gaming company with a bunch of Australians while still in high school. I've put in twice as many work hours as a normal person would have by this point in life; it's what I do; that's what it takes. My great joy in life is to build new concepts and see new ideas brought to life. I used to do one major project every year or two. The technologies required to launch a new web business have gotten so cheap and easy, I now rapid prototype a new business every month or two. The project list below spans the last four or five months. segment: everything known; global; local; real-time; semantics; media; news goal: build the largest intelligent knowledge resource; 30 million connected entities launch: 2010 segment: global & local news; real time; personalization goal: build a massive, personalized, news aggregator; tracking millions of news stories in real time, by topic and source launch: Mar 2010 segment: twitter, real-time, semantics goal: people, places, and things on Twitter launch: Feb 2010 segment: question & answer goal: bring tagging and simplification to the Q&A market launch: Dec 2009 segment: information goal: a data / content experiment launch: Aug 2009 segment: lists goal: lists are among the most popular objects online (top 10 lists etc); bring the power to create easy multimedia lists to everybody launch: beta Nov 2009; currently being modified segment: vacation rentals goal: bring vacation rental sites into the 21st century launch: 2010 More coming soon: PicsDL.com