Steve Pavlina's and Paul Graham's articles circa 2002 and up; Bill Gates/Microsoft (QBasic, Visual Basic, C); volunteer work and after school clubs to learn that it doesn't matter if you're making money/getting graded/successful/one of the starters, if you're around smart people and having fun and learning a lot; business articles in general; learning to focus on taking things into my own hands and think logically, regardless of what people say is possible or isn't; thinking (maybe mistakingly) that inventing or discovering something is commonplace and therefore I have to do it.

Childhood inspiration for a startup? I was just happy to be learning English and didn't have a computer until I was 14.