My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems.
In our industry, there are so many competing companies and games, and they have people constantly out spying on competition. For example, Valve in Seattle tries to keep their location a secret.
What I like about South Florida is there's a good quality of life here; the cost of living is much lower than Silicon Valley.
South Florida's international connections mean there's a different kind of innovation here. We're able to intersect with a lot of brilliant people who are not associated with Silicon Valley.
We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don't want you to bend to computers.
When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.
