But he couldn’t shake the notion that it was all pointless and uninspired and that it wouldn’t lead to the promised life that he’d found so seductive at RISD, or in the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley, or in the pages of the Walt Disney biography that he was avidly reading. ‘People told me, you can change the world you are living in,’ he says. ‘Then reality set in, and reality wasn’t that. The reality was, I’m just making stuff.’

