Started my adult life as an entrepreneur, thinking I would be trading money for time. Time to be spent doing things I love and time with family.

Naïve. The reality was the complete opposite. As the saying goes, an entrepreneur works 7 days a week to avoid working 5 days a week for someone.

This went on for 5 years, until I became borderline bankrupt with no way of repaying my business creditors, suppliers and landlord. Future was dark, no light at the end of the tunnel.

Then ONE fine day, I walked in to a bank and the banker was telling me about this magic internet money (irony, I came to hear about crypto from a banker). Dived deep and started understanding about Bitcoin, understanding money and the financial system and how ‘bitcoin fixes this’.

Pulled together whatever cash I could and dumped it into crypto and dabbled with many coins which turned out to be scam coins and scam ICOs. Lost a chunk but I get more and more fascinated with the space.

Bubble grew in 2017 and eventually burst in 2018. It was hard. But I learnt most about this space during those dark days. Needless to say my world got darker being rekt in Web2.0 and rekt in Web3.0. But it is such difficult period where it builds your character and makes you appreciate the little things in life.

I stayed engaged with the market throughout the bear of 2018, and managed to be among the forefront of the next narrative - the birth of Defi. Started with YFI farming and eventually all sorts of fruit farms. By 2020, I turned into a Degen. Ouch.

Then came the wave of alternative chains like BNB, SOL, FTM. Then came the wave of L2, followed by NFT and then gaming finance. My takeaway? As long as you stay updated and grounded to this space, you will find money and if you play your cards right, it can possibly be life changing ;)

Fast forward to today, I still run my own business though it is more of a side hustle now. Subscribed to the ‘Barista FIRE’ movement and now humbly living within my means, taking it a day at a time - until the next big crypto wave!

Started my adult life as an entrepreneur, thinking I would be trading money for time. Time to be spent doing things I love and time with family.

Naïve. The reality was the complete opposite. As the saying goes, an entrepreneur works 7 days a week to avoid working 5 days a week for someone.

This went on for 5 years, until I became borderline bankrupt with no way of repaying my business creditors, suppliers and landlord. Future was dark, no light at the end of the tunnel.

Then ONE fine day, I walked in to a bank and the banker was telling me about this magic internet money (irony, I came to hear about crypto from a banker). Dived deep and started understanding about Bitcoin, understanding money and the financial system and how ‘bitcoin fixes this’.

Pulled together whatever cash I could and dumped it into crypto and dabbled with many coins which turned out to be scam coins and scam ICOs. Lost a chunk but I get more and more fascinated with the space.

Bubble grew in 2017 and eventually burst in 2018. It was hard. But I learnt most about this space during those dark days. Needless to say my world got darker being rekt in Web2.0 and rekt in Web3.0. But it is such difficult period where it builds your character and makes you appreciate the little things in life.

I stayed engaged with the market throughout the bear of 2018, and managed to be among the forefront of the next narrative - the birth of Defi. Started with YFI farming and eventually all sorts of fruit farms. By 2020, I turned into a Degen. Ouch.

Then came the wave of alternative chains like BNB, SOL, FTM. Then came the wave of L2, followed by NFT and then gaming finance. My takeaway? As long as you stay updated and grounded to this space, you will find money and if you play your cards right, it can possibly be life changing ;)

Fast forward to today, I still run my own business though it is more of a side hustle now. Subscribed to the ‘Barista FIRE’ movement and now humbly living within my means, taking it a day at a time - until the next big crypto wave!