My Story As An Entrepreneur

My Entrepreneurial journey started at a very low point. When I was 13 years old, I got really sick. I was bedridden for about 8 weeks (Autoimmune related ailment) with very little hope of recovery. Over this 8-week period there was not much to do. I started looking for escapes to distract myself and that is when I got into sneakers. Over the next 18 months after my miraculous recovery, I built one of the largest sneaker reselling pages in the world. Unfortunately, that wasn't the happy ending to my story. I got sick again, this time with horrible chronic migraines. I was forced to put the sneaker reselling to the side and try to recover. Unfortunately, this time around, my escape wasn't so healthy. After my recovery from these migraines there were 2 things that came out of it. I had transferred to a 1 on 1 high school, and, unfortunately, developed a horrible video game addiction. This addiction ruled my life for the next 2 years. Eventually I realized the horrors of which this addiction was causing to both myself and the people around me. Every time my life has hit a low point; I always seem to start some sort of entrepreneurial venture. This time around it was actually 2 things. I got back into sneakers, but this time with a very different approach. I went the B2B route and served as a middleman between huge reselling entities. In about 6 months of this, I had multiple 6 figure revenue months. The other, was a summer camp for kids aged 7-11 in my neighborhood. This one I would say was a much bigger positive impact on my life. I realized how much I had been missing out on by locking myself in my room to play video games all day. I began to go to the gym at this point. I found this small personal training gym with my mom and started going every day. That is where I met George. George was one of the personal trainers at the gym. He owned his own training business with multiple trainers. He ALSO had an algorithmic trading startup. I decided to try and intern for this company, at the time called "World Class Forex". After about 3 weeks as an intern, I came up with an idea for a new trading algorithm, and we became business partners. The idea was to quantify all of the market data for a particular currency pair into a singular number, called its "Core Value". We called the company "Core Value Capital" and I spent the next 2 and a half years working on it. We built an automated trading system that is still profitable to this day and I value every minute I spent working there. At the conclusion of my time at CVC, I was spending every second of my free time on it, and I didn't see a future in me doing it. I called it quits and quickly started a new venture called 0to10 Trading. I leveraged my connections and industry knowledge to audit other trading algorithms and give consulting advice on them. For about 6 months this was going very well. However, I made the decision that trading wasn't what I wanted to spend my life doing. During this time I became infatuated with AI and I quickly started FF, a Crypto and AI startup. As you may be familiar with the industry, when you are in a "Startup" Phase, you do not make any money. With being a student at the University of Miami (Not a cheap place), along with having a girlfriend and enjoying things like golf and other hobbies, I needed a way to make some money. That is when I got really into poker. On Friday nights, I would go to a poker room called magic city and play Texas Hold'Em for 4-6 hours. I was really good and was making about 3-400 dollars a week. One day, on a call with 2 of my childhood best friends, we were discussing the industry and how much the house/casinos were making. It was then that Division 1 Academy was born. Over the next 6 months, it was my second priority behind FF, but by November 2024, my responsibilities as the CEO grew too much to juggle both. I went full time into growing D1 into the biggest poker company on the planet. From then until now, we have grown from 3 to 45 people on our team and achieved 7 figures of revenue in Q1 of 2025. It was a long journey to get here and it is just the start! See you at the top, and remember, NOBODY RUNS BETTER THAN THE PRO.