>be me, 19
>stanford sophomore
>build "uber for haircuts"
>literally just react native template
>raise $500k from stanford alumni fund
>spend it all on customer acquisition
>accidentally book 300 haircuts for same time slot
>angry mob of hairdressers outside dorm
>ru_winning_son.jpg
>drop out in shame
>parents stop talking to me
>work as unity dev making hyper casual games
>live in oakland trap house
>entire net worth is gaming chair
>keep spamming builds on twitter
>25 now, games all flop
>random anon dms me
>"anon your code is dogshit but your steam networking is clean"
>turns out he's building game engine at amazon
>bunch of ex-valve anons in secret discord
>they need networking guy
>literally hire me because of my failed haircut app tcp stack
>spend 2 years building engine core
>whole team rage quits amazon together
>start studio, raise $80M
>series b from an …opinionated… billionaire
>make minecraft competitor
>turns out zoomers love badly optimized networking
>now 31, game has 42M mau
>live in lake tahoe compound
>convince everyone i’m in sf for clout and better anon arguments
>still use same gaming chair
>parents finally talking to me again
>they think i sell NFTs
>easier than explaining distributed systems
>life is good?
>life is good😈