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A founder reflects on childhood fascination with math, art, and coding, and the thrill of making something from nothing. They earned their first dollar online as a teenager, which shifted what felt possible to build.

A founder reflects on childhood fascination with math, art, and coding, and the thrill of making something from nothing. They earned their first dollar online as a teenager, which shifted what felt possible to build.
Yeah, so I think as a kid I've always been very intrigued by maths, art. Like, I used to paint a lot, and I started coding very early in my life. And I think the euphoria that came from building stuff, that was magical. Like, how you could, you know, on an empty canvas, how you could create something. Or with code, how you could create a game that didn't exist earlier. I think that feeling of creating something from scratch that you can use or people can use, really, uh, I think That kind of inspired me. And in my mind, I always knew I'll build something that could go into millions of homes. So I think I was driven since childhood to do that. And I made my first dollar on the internet when I was a teenager. And I think that really changed the spectrum of, you know, what will come forward.

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