[Company 1]
[Industry / Model]
How I found my way in
Origins
I was born in a small city where the phone line and the family computer had to take turns — you couldn't call and connect at the same time. For me the internet arrived as a sound long before it was ever a place.
I was nine the first time I got online by myself. It took four impatient minutes to connect, and on the other end was a whole world I was sure had been built just for me. I'd have waited an hour for it.
Going places
My teens were spent halfway between two countries — the one I was from, and the one where I was quietly figuring out who I'd become. I moved abroad at seventeen chasing something I couldn't name yet.
A few years later I came back carrying a slightly different accent and a much longer list of questions. Same instinct as always, just older and a little sharper about where to point it.
The turning point
The plan had been something safe and linear. It lasted exactly one internship — long enough to learn I'd been optimising hard for the wrong kind of certainty.
Then one late night, rebuilding a broken website for a friend's business, it clicked: the thing I kept doing for fun was the thing I should be doing for real. Everything since has been a version of that.
Still the same nine-year-old, really — just better at waiting for the connection to catch.