Candace Mitchell couldn’t wait any longer.
Mitchell, then age 10, had grown tired of gazing at a large box sitting in the family living room. Full of ambition and keen to explore, Mitchell took it upon herself to connect and then install software on her family’s shiny new computer. Turns out Mitchell’s impatience sparked a passion for computer science.
“I remember thinking, ‘I want to create software that can run on millions of computers like this one day,’” Mitchell, now 36, tells Forbes.
In June, she came one step closer to achieving that childhood dream.