Undergrad runway

It has been an explicit goal of mine to start a profitable business, for as long as I can remember. I have always been fascinated by money.

I spent my undergraduate years messing around with business ideas. I thought of my undergrad years as a “runway”: I needed to get my airplane, a viable business, off the ground before my runway ran out, or else if I waited until after having graduated, I’d lose my “cover.” There’d be a lot of societal and familial pressure to “get a normal job,” and the opportunity cost in lost income would start to go way up. I even tried to extend this runway by going to college early, then changing universities, thus taking 5 years to graduate. I did not get an airplane off the ground during this time.

And it turns out my fear was right! The pressure does seem to go up once you’re done with undergrad! So the time for me to finally get a plane in the air is, well, now!

In undergrad, there were 3 industries I started taking seriously for business theses—freight, biology, and climate change; and how one might sprinkle in some technology to these places—and I kept waffling between them! Maybe it would have been better to focus. But anyway, that’s where a lot of my ideas these days are coming from.