To me, building a company is the exact same activity as building in the makerspace. It is taking disparate parts, assembling them with intent, and creating something that didn't exist before.

This isn't a new hobby. I grew up watching Shark Tank with my dad. I started by trading Pokémon and Bakugan, graduating to selling custom paper airplanes from a design book for a quarter a pop. By high school, I was earning my college spending money by helping wealthy moms "cut the cord" and switching them to streaming services just it was getting trendy. Over the years I've started fintechs, bra companies, consultancies, and helped with the launches of countless others.

I remember sitting on a bench on the coast of Maui when I was about 11, staring at a lone house on the beach. I asked my dad what it cost to live there and did the math I had learned earlier that week on investment yields in my head. I realized then that if you build the right systems, you don't have to be bound by a 9-to-5. I have a profound, passionate hatred for unnecessary busywork and the obsolete concept of the 40-hour workweek.

That is why I build. The goal is always the same: use technology to delete the most miserable, repetitive parts of people's lives so they can actually live.

I’ve heard that entrepreneurs only work with two kinds of partners: someone who is the exact same kind of crazy (on their own grind), or someone who is deeply, anchors-down supportive. I don't necessarily need a co-founder (been there, mixed feelings), but I do need someone who understands that for me entrepreneurship plays a big part in how I interact with the world.