What am I doing in a startup?
Exciting ideas come to me coffee-infused and late in the night.
I remember sitting at my desk in front of the absolute ambiance of my monitor and the steady hum of my struggling laptop. It was my typical late-night college campfire when I committed myself to my business idea.
A week had passed since I presented at the 2017 SpaceVision Business Plan Competition. Originally, it was only an idea — something for me to present as my entry to the conference. Then, my engineering tenacity got the better of me and I ended up actually building the AI that could design the 3D models of CubeSats (sacrificing several homework assignments in the process). That, combined with gaining our first customer at SpaceVision, convinced me that my startup deserved a real shot.
Over the next few months, I found real diamonds in the rough — brilliant friends that I’ve worked well with on group projects in the past (you’ll hear about their sides of the story in later posts). Now, it’s been nearly a year. And, as I take a sip of the mocha-scented liquid filling my mug, I can’t help but think that this was what I was meant to do.
