I came to Silicon Valley at the same time that Yahoo was born.
I had an early start in programming and created my first website when there were only 10,000 websites in the World.
I was brainstorming cool ideas for startups in 1999, but when people sold domain names for millions, I tried to build a company. That all went south after the bubble burst. What idiots selling domain names for millions and calling them startups!
Then Google came in, but I was building a competing search engine – that didn’t end well. And a video platform that competed with Youtube also didn’t achieve anything.
I read all the biographies of successful people and followed their routine, eating oranges and sleeping on the couch until I made it.
I invented all the cool technologies and pitched all my ideas to top investors in the Valley.
I was working for pennies to make it.
Years went by.
I still have a hope to make it BIG.
I’m 53 now.
No family, no friends, no career, no house, no savings. But I believe in myself. I have to try one more time.
It will happen eventually.