Thank you for sharing your experience, as an entrepreneur for six years, I am well-versed in paddling to catch the wave. However, I would ask, did you have other advantages, like parents who paid or assisted with your education? Did you have a mentor early on, who opened doors for your success? What role did being male in a tech field play in your being taken seriously or hired for projects?

No one succeeds in a vacuum.

When we drive a car, we exploit and pollute the natural resources of our planet. How was the food you ate this morning harvested and by whom, for what wages? Or the enormous energy that powers the server farms your business relies on, where does that come from?

To believe that you did all of this yourself, never exploiting anyone or anything, is naïve.