In the 1980s when I was growing up in the Berkshire town of Maidenhead I was heavily into tennis. It was the era of Borg and McEnroe. I used to spend hours hitting balls against a wall, imagining I was beating them both.

I remember my first memory is sitting in my dad's chair in a small office and I used to imagine that I was picking up the phone and issuing commands. And I was only seven.

I want enterprise and entrepreneurship embedded in the national curriculum and will continue to lobby government until it happens.

The first thing I think, I was building computers, I started to build a computer when I was 17 or 18 at home, an IBM compatible computer, and then I started to sell computers, and when I sold a computer to a company called Ligo I think, and they were selling systems which became blockbuster.

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

It hasn't been very normal in my career, but that first year in pro ball was the craziest year ever.

What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that's reached a lot of different places.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.