At Dinner, My Family Said They Were Done With Me—Then A Woman In A Navy Blazer Entered Looking Only For Me

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“I think I’m going to build something that matters,” I said quietly, meeting each of their eyes. “Whether you believe in it or not.”

That was three years ago. Three years of grinding, pivoting, failing, and fighting. Shannon and I bootstrapped everything, working from my tiny apartment with equipment we bought secondhand. We lived on ramen continue reading …