But it was becoming increasingly difficult to go on as his cash dwindled.
At six years old, he would cry and become terrified to go to school and hold his mother.
Even Henry was becoming convinced of the need to go along with it.
Her strategy became to go after the biggest targets possible.
"It becomes one of those other places to go for the disaffected."
The set becomes just another place for them to go.
Rather, the strategy has become to go after those who want to stand out in the crowd - a crucial distinction.
Indeed, for hundreds, maybe thousands of Internet companies founded with big ambitions, it is becoming time to go home.
The longer the boy avoided swimming, the harder it became to go back in when he wanted to.
Industry executives say it has become more difficult than in the past for very young companies to go public on the Nasdaq.