David Ulevitch — American Businessman born on December 05, 1981,

David A. Ulevitch is founder and CEO of the enterprise security company OpenDNS and founder of EveryDNS... (wikipedia)

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.
I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.
I've always enjoyed real work more than schoolwork. My mother will attest to that - she was always concerned about me academically.
Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.
One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.