I started off taking on the normal path of education towards getting a good career. I thought I was going to become a scientist at first, due to my interest in understanding everything in the universe, but my life brought me elsewhere. I applied for university with two options: theater or biotechnology. I chose the latter because of the stronger potential for a diverse and successful career.

After a few years, I quit my cozy teaching job, burned all the bridges, and built my first software business. I ran that business for over 10 years. Having learned what to do and not to do, we generated $650,000 in our first year of operation with the next company and landed customers such as Lixar, Magmic Games, and even Microsoft.

This is when I got with other startup entrepreneurs and started CykoMetrix, the world's first human data analytics platform.

One of my earliest mentors told me that there were three things I needed to have to generate success: energy, energy, and more energy. Perseverance means having a passion for a faraway goal that is bigger than the project you are working on. Whatever your long-term dream is, the project you are working on is a vehicle. You never give up on your broad goal, but you can change the project any number of times to reach it.

Failures are learning experiences. They are critical to building success. Without my failures, I would not be where I am today. I tell people that are getting started that they should fail as many times as possible, as quickly as possible. Success is a team game.

I identify as The Paradise Engineer. My whole life I've been trying to find ways to make the world a better place.

"Keep moving forward, never look back. Feel and be mindful of the present, it is the only true thing you have."