Brit Morin

I was extremely curious growing up. I taught myself how to sew, French braid, and cook. When I wasn't creating things with my hands, I was learning more about tech. I was experimenting with email at nine, had my first cell phone at 13, and was truly obsessed with the Internet as a teenager. ”

There is a lack of female venture capitalists, and so there are fewer female-oriented businesses getting funded. Intel has done a good job of creating a message across Intel, and they are putting their money where their mouth is. ”

I'm a supporter of female entrepreneurs. I don't feel like a victim, and I try to not think of myself as one. ”

I'm literally online all day long, and if I don't get back to everyone, I'll stay up all night. ”

For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home. ”

I'm extremely lucky that my passion - making and creating - is also my career. ”

Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things. ”

I want people to know me as a real person, that I struggle with the same things they do, that I had to teach myself how to get through life in efficient ways. ”

To me, age doesn't make a difference in terms of how playful or fun life can be. ”

I moved to San Francisco when I was 20 years old. I couldn't even drink yet. My friends in college thought I was so stupid for missing out on the four best years of my life. But I was so ready to start living my own life and absorb Silicon Valley culture. ”