You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

It's not about how to get started; it's about how to get noticed.

You really need to believe that you are on to something important.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.