i have been building since i was 18. most of it has not worked out. i keep going anyway, not out of stubbornness, but because the process itself is the only thing that has ever felt right.
here is the history, honest.
my first company was buying and selling sneakers and collectibles. small arbitrage, real margin, fast feedback loops. it taught me that a market is just a gap between what something is worth and what someone will pay for it. i was good at finding those gaps.
i built a company to help people ship things from abroad to india. grey market goods, personal purchases, anything people wanted but couldn't easily get. the problem was clear and genuinely underserved. the execution was harder than i expected. i learned more from that failure than from most things i've tried since.
i spent a few years in private credit, looking at loan tapes, structuring deals, understanding how capital actually moves through a system. it was precise, methodical work. i got good at it. it also made me want to build again.
this one i care about genuinely. i started a project using 3d motion capture, pri therapy, and electromyography to help people move better. athletes, mostly. the technology works. the distribution is hard. i'm still at it in some form, though i'll be honest: it has not yet become what i wanted it to be.
apprentice is a personal ai that gets calibrated to how you work. not a generic assistant. something that watches how you actually do things, your formulas, your voice, your standards, and compounds that model over time. the longer you use it, the more it thinks like you.
this one feels different. we'll see.