I'm a 16-year-old entrepreneur, investor, and builder from Austin, Texas, and I'm just getting started. While most people my age are figuring out what they want to do, I'm already doing it: founding AI companies, pitching stocks to institutional investors in New York, qualifying for national competitions, and shipping real products to real customers.
I'm fascinated by the intersection of human intelligence and artificial intelligence, not just what AI can do, but what it reveals about how we think, decide, and create. The more I learn about systems and models, the more I realize how much of the world is just patterns waiting to be understood. Business, technology, markets, language, they're all different surfaces of the same underlying curiosity: why does this work, and how could it work better?
I believe the best ideas live at the edges of disciplines, where most people stop looking. I don't think in straight lines. I think in frameworks, in second-order effects, in the questions behind the questions. The human mind was not built for the ordinary. It was built for the edges of what's possible, and most people never even get close. I plan to.
- FBLA NLC Qualifier - Top 2% nationally, 2nd place at Texas State (Business Ethics)
- YIS Top 100 Global Stock Pitch - Pitched Marvell Technologies (MRVL) at $78 - $108 (40% Upside - 1 Month)
- YIS Financial Quiz Bowl - 2nd place internationally, $500 scholarship (Top 0.1%)
- DECA Texas State Competitor - District 5 Champion - State Competitor - District 5 Media Team
- NSDA Varsity Extemporaneous Speaker - Extemp/Speech Captain, Multiple finals placements, State Recognition
- UIL Informative Speaking - 4th place at Districts, Qualified for regionals
- Criyx AI - 5-figure revenue, 20+ clients across UAE, US, India, and Europe
- UniAdz - 100+ waitlist, $0 paid marketing, 5-7 inbound VC conversations
- App Developer - Creator of "Hourly" (Best Innovation Award winner $250 PRIZE)
Rouse High School
Leander, Texas
Class of 2028
Focus: Business, Computer Science, AI/ML
"The human mind was not built for the ordinary. It was built to reach the edges of what's possible, and most people never even get close. I plan to."
From JoeyGirdhar