I wanted to build my own business, designing and manufacturing biodegradable packaging from waste. Paper, agricultural, even textile waste. Replacing the toxic, disposable plastic packaging to which we've all become addicted. This is called clean technology, and it felt really meaningful to me. A venture that could help to reduce the billions of pounds of single-use plastic packaging dumped each year, and polluting our land, our rivers and our oceans, and left for future generations to resolve - our grandchildren, my grandchildren. And so now at the age of 66, with 40 years of experience, I became an entrepreneur for the very first time. Lots of issues to deal with: manufacturing, outsourcing, job creation, patents, partnerships, funding. These are all typical issues for a start-up, but hardly typical for me. And a word about funding. I live and work in San Francisco, and if you're looking for funding, you are typically going to compete with some very young people from the high-tech industry, and it can be very discouraging and intimidating.