About

Dropping out

I dropped out after six months of studying game dev. Not because I couldn't keep up. The opposite. Everyone was just starting out and I was already building. For my final project I wanted to make a VR world, borrowing a friend's Oculus, bringing in people from outside school. My teachers expected Flappy Bird. They told me I couldn't finish it and I couldn't involve outsiders. I felt limited. So I left.

Starting from zero

I had no money and no laptop. I got a job at a sushi restaurant and started saving. While I saved, I borrowed a friend's laptop to trade crypto and NFTs. I was 16. When the market crashed, I held. I figured people wouldn't give up on crypto and I wanted to be there first. I was right. After I sold, I used that money to travel.

Travelling

I went to Asia and America. Both sides of the world before I turned 18. Every time I got on a plane I'd think “no going back now” and let the experience consume me. Being 17, alone, on a different continent, nobody was going to do anything for me. It made me grow up fast.

San Francisco

Then San Francisco. I flew out with my co-founder to pitch Hushtap. We didn't raise funding but that trip changed everything. The Bay Area is where the world's talent lives. Being around people who think bigger than you, who've built things you use every day, who treat ambition as normal. That rewired how I see everything. I came back a different person.

Why I build

Before I dropped out, I watched a Steve Jobs interview where he said something like “then you'll realise that you can also build things and change them.” That line stuck. I live by it. I don't want to consume what already exists. I want to build my own things, lead rather than follow.

Right now I'm building ColdNet, an offline AI app for iPhone. I've also built my own coding agent, attended hackathons in London, and I'm active in the scene. People in the space know me. Other founders have written about me. I'm not building alone.

The reality

I've been to zero twice now. Travelled the world and came back with nothing. Got a job, worked long shifts, and started building again. Because I don't see a reality where I quit.

The hardest part is the constant failing. I have friends around me doing incredible things and they keep me going. But the reality is I've failed over and over, gone broke, and had to restart. I just keep going because I know where I'm heading.

What I believe

I see life as a mission to do as much as possible. Build as much as possible. There are no limits. I want to keep building and never stop.

Life is too short to follow rules. Break them. Do what you feel deep inside. Otherwise you'll regret not doing anything.