School and I never really agreed. I'd sit in the last bench, decide the period was a waste of a perfectly good afternoon, and go read about how software gets made instead. Eventually I stopped pretending I'm enrolled in a school on paper, and the actual education has been the internet, a second-hand laptop and an unhealthy number of hours.
No formal degree. No cofounder handed to me by a college network. Just a very stubborn habit: when something looked hard, I'd take it apart until it didn't. That habit turned into websites, then into automations, then into two companies Daden Group and Kubes where I'm the person responsible for whether the technology actually works.
The thing I found out early: businesses aren't slow because their people are bad. They're slow because good people spend their day copying things from one box into another. That's the problem I've decided to spend my twenties on.
I still work most of the day. Not because someone's watching because this is genuinely the most interesting time to be alive if you like AI, technology and business. I'm 19 and I'd rather be the person who learns fastest in the room than the person who sounds smartest in it.