I've had a good fortune of living the American dream.

I just kind of had an itching to go run my own thing.

You know, the only way you could be a failure is not to fail.

To be honest, the first company I went was a total disaster.

It was like running a hundred yard dash and being smacked in the face with a two-by-four.

I never forget, I was my second day on the job.

The CEO said, Keith, I want you to say this is the next board meeting.

And I go, Maria, I will not say that, that will be lie.

You get that big bit in your stomach and you just turn warm.

It's like, I just made the biggest mistake of my life.

You know, obviously, my drive comes from my upbringing.

And it's about paying it forward and giving it back.

You know, one of the things my dad always said is the key is when the world hands you a sack of sour lemon.

It's the objective of the game.

It's the turn of us, we live in A.

And I was fortunate enough to be able to do that.

And I ended up hookin' up with three PhD scientists from the IBM research labs

that had a technology.

It would change the way mechanical engineering was done.

It took about two and a half years, but it worked.

And we changed the way mechanical engineering is done with that software from RAS.

And we created a thing called mechanical design synthesis and design optimization.

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