Wee Lil Kid (Middle School)
undercut my middle schools student leadership snack prices until school shut me down
scavenged PC parts during e waste pickups, built new PCs, sold them
100k+ followers iFunny page
consistently a top 5 faction in Minecraft
built my first redstone TNT cannon
installing my first Minecraft mod (Lucky Blocks)
many many "parent-teacher" conferences
PC building business
zombies on Black Ops 2
rooted Android
My first ever PC (not the best cable management huh 😂)
Hacking, Cults & Finance (High School)
school scapegoated me for finding a misconfig on a shared network drive
hacked games with Cheat Engine
jailbroken iphone (shoutout Cydia gng)
USB stick with tons of RATs (Orcus, njRat, DarkComet etc)
convinced frens to crowdfund 100 custom iPhone cases to sell
bait-and-switched by Alibaba supplier; 91 cases still in my garage
social engineered my way into RSAconference without a badge (sorry, game is game)
snuck into RSAconference afterparties
called PayPal at 14 asking them to unban me (they did not)
cue 5 fig dropshipping arc
paid someone to do my HW so I could dropship
persuaded a classmate to "invest" in my dropshipping "company"
built the 3rd largest student org on campus
camp Wolfeboro as a boy scout
pirate (ifykyk)
cracked premiere pro
first linux install (shoutout ubuntu)
traded options in class
phone confiscated for trading options in class
started a mini "OGB (orange golf ball) cult"
moderated stock callout discord server
first time I touched a snowboard
started an esports org
went through JA (the most valuable youth biz program ever)
semi-pro in Fortnite (I will beat you in realistics)
built an esports startup
attempted to convince my relatives abroad to use their ID so I could get IPO access through launchpads
traded on binancedotcom pre US ban
sold said esports startup
bought broken GPUs & fixed them
mined Ravencoin & ethereum
A few years of conferences I didn't sneak into
Magic Internet Money & Startups (Yes I'm sort of a crypto bro 😅)
flash loans, yield farming & sandwich MEV arc
trading bot for PancakeSwap
predictions w @t1c.dev
made dumb money on NFTs; thought I'd retire in a few months
first EthereumDenver
lost dumb money on NFTs
restarted UC Irvines Blockchain Org w fren
DG cabal was born (ifykyk)
ensdomains airdrop brought life into me & frens
first contract with a leading protocol for UCIBlockchain
built a physical server + ran a node with UCIBlockchain
listened to Ludovico Einaudi (watching him live is a need)
lost 50% NW during Terra Luna + Celsius + FTX
sold pepe too early at 18M :(
started and failed a blockchain startup
EthereumDenver with 16 college kids in one big airbnb
MiladyMaker333 rave in ETHDenver
6 figs through contracts in 1 year UCIBlockchain
the day I learned to play poker
prediction market arbitrage
prediction market trading
starting a prop trading fund and running it up
accepted into Avax's accelerator program (Codebase)
intro week in Lisbon for Codebase
submitting the withdrawal form for UC Irvine
winning 1st place at Codebase
building inertia_social (prediction market platform)
first order successfully matching in our own in house unified order book
first organic market created by a random
3 months in a big Buenos Aires house with insanely ambitious founders
Some friends at the Buenos Aires House
Winning 1st place at Codebase
If you made it down here and resonate with this list, we probably should be friends :)
And as always, I'm looking for the next rabbit hole to go down!
DMs are open 🤝