Shaz
I started Vergemount Labs at 18, mostly at night, around my AI/ML work.
I've always been bad at leaving an idea alone. If something's stuck in my head, the only way to get it out is to build it and put it in front of people and see what happens.
Most of what we've made started like that. A learning platform for people who won't just pick one subject. An operating system for gyms. A markets course that works more like a game than a textbook. I design them, write the code, break them, and keep going until they actually feel good to use.
I also handle the boring half of running a studio — invoices, the bugs that show up at 3am, the emails nobody wants to send. A lot of it I'm figuring out as I go, and I'm okay with that. Learning on the job is pretty much the whole point right now.
What I care about is stuff that ships and actually works. I'd rather have one real product out in the world than ten nice-looking pitches sitting in a folder somewhere.
The studio's the long-term plan for me. Somewhere to keep building the things I wish already existed, and hopefully get good enough at it that they stick around.
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