1. In college I studied computer science. I didn’t do what most students did by pursuing top internships.
I got paid under the table to write software, I worked in a factory and I invested in my father’s ability to retire in Mexico.
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2. When I graduated, I moved to California immediately and I figured it out. Some good, God loving folks from my Pueblo back in Mexico helped me out and helped me get established, but the risk was high nonetheless.
I worked hard to land a job working at a financial technology startup.
3. I worked hard at that startup and ignored most people’s advice. Worked hard. That’s it. Got out of work and learned how to invest and trade, saved, and focused on building my ideas.
4. Eventually I unloaded on Bitcoin and tech. Then I fought tooth and nail to get some revenue established for my business. I gave most of it away creating scholarships for the folks that supported my platform.
The truth is I worked stupid hard, fought for it and refused to take no from people at all costs.
5. After creating a product that I could consider beautiful, well done, and excellent, I made the decision to move back to Mexico to work on an avocado with my father for a bit. I need to learn the avocado trade and I have no social obligations to meet in the US.
6. That is to say, the entire time I risked it all, my first priority and focus was my father’s retirement, to make realistic.
In my view, it was better to get my father a few hundred thousand dollars out of the real estate market doing the work ourselves, so it can be reinvested to cultivate our land, than it was to pursue internships for a rat race.