When I was in high school, I loved paintball. I saved up my allowances and started my own paintball supply company. Everyone thought I was just some obsessed kid, but today the company is one of the biggest paintball suppliers in Canada.

I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.

Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to bootstrap a restaurant with just a Visa card and a $20,000 line of credit. Everyone told me restaurants were hard work (and they were right! I have so much respect for anyone in the restaurant business). I ran the restaurant for two years, sold a franchise, decided to change paths, and sold the whole operation at a modest profit.