I love building.
I’m 20. I study marketing at Lynn University in Boca Raton, and I run Vinco around my classes. I want to build things that help people and make a real living doing it. That’s the honest version.
It started in classrooms and libraries.
My first work was teaching. I ran AI programs at schools and libraries, including a four-week AI Essentials course at a public library in Connecticut. Standing in front of a room teaches you fast what people need from software: simple, quick, and out of the way.
Then a teacher cried.
Teachers in one Connecticut district were spending more than 150 hours every summer on lesson planning. They were paid for 100. One of them had gone four years without a summer off.
I built a planner that pulls the requirements together and drafts the plans. It brought the work down to about 30 hours. She cried when she saw it run.
That’s the reason. Someone got her summers back because of something I made.
What I hold myself to.
The work has to help people. If something I build would be used to hurt someone, I walk away from the deal.
Overdeliver first, grow second. I go all the way for the client in front of me before I take on the next one.