Simone Giertz

I've always avoided making being a woman my main asset and unique selling point. If it is then you'll start seeing other women as competition, and that's the last thing you need when entering a very male-dominated field.

People should be faced with losing everything a little bit more often because it really helps put a lot of things into perspective.

I'm good at pitching my weaknesses as strengths.

I'm kind of a challenge junkie, I think.

I think as soon as you're a woman, or any minority doing something, you automatically become a representative for it, and I think a lot of brilliant women's interviews are being wasted on talking about what it's like being a woman.

I'm still sometimes convinced that I'm just making all of this up and I'm actually somewhere drooling in a straight jacket. This success is such a bizarre thing.

Haircuts are never good. You always end up being unhappy.

I think people just like seeing failure.

Reddit is, it's like a tiger. It's great if it's your friend, but it can also eat you alive.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

In middle school and high school, I had straight A's, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip side of that, I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.

I love Sugru like I love duct tape. I basically just compensated for lack of building skills with Sugru.