There's no better feeling than having an idea and seeing it become reality, emerging in the physical world.

There will always be people saying things can't be done. And history shows that time and time again things 'couldn't be done' and they were done.

When I was 16 years old, I went scuba diving in Greece and saw more plastic bags than fish. I wondered why we couldn't just clean it up. That rather simple question stuck in my head.

I've always been obsessed with technology.

I'm a firm believer of the venture capitalist-style approach to solving problems. Rather than doing many small things that you hope add up, it's much more effective to work on projects that are high risk and high reward.

We absolutely need to clean up the plastic that's already in the ocean. It won't go away by itself. But we do also need to make sure that no more plastic enters the oceans in the first place. These things should go hand in hand.

What humans aren't good at is trying to consume less, to consume less plastic, to not be lazy.

I am quite obsessive by nature.

Whenever you start working on something, you have to go about it with the underlying assumption that this puzzle has a solution, right? If you started a jigsaw puzzle not knowing whether all the pieces were in the box, it would not be a fun exercise.