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I think I wanted to be so many things.

I think I wanted to be so many things, but I think the most vivid recollection I have is wanting to be an astronaut.

I think I was like six or seven years old. The astronaut phase went on for a long time and it kind of fast but that desire to kind of go and do something different or to leverage all the tools available to solve problems. I think it came from that phase of I want to go out there

and do that.

So I grew up in a really small dusty town in India.

Went to school in like late 80s and 90s.

We were like from a tech perspective right we were significantly behind the curve in terms of what kind of technology was available at home or what was taught at school.

I had my first real experience with a computer when I was 17 in my first year at engineering college.

So it was very, very different.

And I was never that very practical child who wanted to break apart a remote control and see how it works inside or something.

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