Ami Burns – An early fascination with engineering

Simon: And the sort of fascination of the engineering side came from you dismantling bikes or …

Anything and everything. Honestly, everything. I’ve had infinite numbers of electric shocks trying to fix lamps that I forgot to unplug and you know hair dryers and you know it all starts really early on with … I think my computer, a big desktop computer, you know, anything.

Bikes was probably the first sort of … you know when your chain comes off you bike, rather than going and asking somebody to help me, I was like well how do I get this back on without asking somebody to help me and that’s probably a personality trait that runs through life, is I lie to get things done myself, and it’s learning about those things and evolving and then my stepdad was pretty good with hands on bits and pieces so it’s good.