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When I left engineering, everyone told me I should “go back to school” for product management. Later, people said the same about marketing. If I had listened, I’d probably still be in a classroom, $200K in debt, instead of building the career (and businesses) I have today.

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For six years straight, I failed at building my company. I tried everything under the sun—different business models, hiring teams, raising money, chasing trends. Every time, it fell apart. Sometimes I failed quietly, sometimes in ways that hurt to admit. At one point, I even gave investors their money back because I knew it wasn’t working.

But those six years weren’t wasted. Every wrong turn, every mistake, every late-night pivot taught me something I couldn’t have learned any other way. And when I finally pieced it all together, when I finally unlocked what actually makes a business work, I made half a million dollars in my first six months.

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✨ $0 to $200M+ cumulative revenue in 4 years with $82M revenue in 2024

✨ 8,000+ monthly active app users with 4.8 star rating in app stores

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💍 Taylor Swift is engaged! Here’s my Star/Fan/Coach Theory on why this is the first relationship of hers that finally worked out…and how yours could too!

🤒 Not being authentic to yourself may be literally making you sick…

1⃣ Front End Engineer @ Meta

2⃣ Paid Creative Manager @ Charlotte Tilbury

3⃣ Creative Coordinator @ Mr. Beast

4⃣ Ecommerce Marketing Manager @ Microsoft

5⃣ Marketing Manager @ Netflix

6️⃣ Assistant Brand Manager @ Nestle

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