Since I was a young boy, I’ve wanted to run by own business. Just the thought of doing ‘whatever I wanted’ to make money had, as I’m sure it does for many, amazing appeal to me. My earliest memory of wanting to be an entrepreneur came when I was 10, but I didn’t really know what I would do or how I would do it. Then, we got our first family computer.

I remember being mystified by it and therefore, spent some extra time on it. But I wasn’t really sure what I was doing. It had Windows 95, and I could play some video games on it. I remember thinking that installing/uninstalling was pretty easy and that it was a cool machine. It was our second machine, which came three years later, that had some really cool stuff- notably a CD burner and an Internet connection.

One day, my cousin came over and showed me how to do something I couldn’t for the life of me figure out: how to burn a CD. Then my thought process went something like this:

That was way easier than I thought it would be. And if I thought this was hard, a lot of people probably do. And if I learn how to use this, I’ll have a skill a lot of people don’t. I bet people would pay for that.

So at 13 years old, I knew the field I wanted to go into was computing. I found my niche. And that was my first step towards becoming an entrepreneur.

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