My story
Bankrupt before 30, building again
At 12, I noticed VK's password-recovery SMS arrived with no sender and no context — and realized the biggest vulnerability in any system is people, not code. My video exposing it hit 1.2M views in two days before the channel was taken down. VK quietly added "never share this code" to their SMS soon after.
Dropped out of programming college after the first year — they were teaching Pascal, and I was already building websites and running online ads for clients, making $1–2K a month. "Mom, don't cry. I have my own wave, and somewhere on it, success is waiting for me."
Invested everything back into my own education and launched venture after venture in partnerships — from e-commerce to local services. Some worked, some taught expensive lessons in branding and law.
Earned my first apartment outright — 85 m², good district, two balconies — producing online businesses. Traveled from Dubai to the Maldives. Felt invulnerable. That feeling was the setup.
Went all-in on crypto altcoins. The market crashed; I sold the apartment to buy the dip. Lost effectively everything. Bankrupt before 30 — exactly like the smart books I read as a kid said to be.
14-hour days, head-first into AI. Running an AI agency and a marketing agency, and shipping this studio's products solo with AI-assisted engineering — building in public this time. The path is the point; the finish line is boring.