People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.

I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.

Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.

I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.

It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!

Audrey Hepburn has influenced me.

I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.

I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.

Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.

Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?

I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.

I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

Bling is good.

I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.

Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

As a woman, I feel it's important to support causes that are important to my core customer, who is also a woman, as well as causes that resonate with me personally.

Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is.