So I am super dyslexic. So 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th grade could learn how to read. And I really wanted to, and I tried everything in orderto get good at it, and in the end, I found odd. We look so I love audio books. I listened to about 100 audiobooks year, and when I got to college, I was frustrated the most. The content I wanted to listen to, I couldn't. So I built the Texas speech system, but my computer readout everything to me. And that made school really easy. And I built about 36 different products when I was in college, everything from three D printed skateboard breaks that I've been actually websites. It was hard for me to learn how to code, but I learned by watching an online course by Rob Personal on you to be, um, that let me learn by watching somebody else code, and I made it easy for me to learn, and I went to a lot of hackathons, and then I built the early version of speech replying, and I just didn't give up on it, and so eventually it got a lot of users

so speechify makes it really easy to let you have any text read out to you. So you take a picture of a book or you can upload PDF or website on it. It reads it out. Thio. It works really, really well, especially people with dyslexia and a D D or concussions or low vision. But we now see that most of our you don't even have learning differences. They're normal people. It's just the case that most people are are foreign immersed, and you can listen faster than the community can also understand better when you listen.

So the thing is, I was already working on building a bunch of projects before the toughest part about speech if I was choosing to work on it instead of taking a job after school. And what ended up doing is I stayed in school. A za visiting scholar. Eso I was on campus, but I was technically not enrolled in classes, and I just kept working on different projects, and I was trying to figure out what would be the thing that I could build that would have the biggest impact on the world. And when I first started working on future, if I I did a couple of hackathons with, like, similar ideas Andi, I just the difficult part for me was coding because I'm very good to computer science, but it takes me a long retirement. Most people. So what I would do? Is it set? A. I used a thing called rescue time to measure how much time I was spending inside of X code programming in my computer, and my goal was to do five hours a day, and if I didn't do five hours a day, I would have to be at the gym by 8 a.m. in the morning and do 300 pushups and 300 pull ups, So I was very much incentivized to code. Over time, speechify started getting more traction. So more people join my team, Simon, and try to many others. And as that happened, my role kind of shifted from being the main person programming, doing a little bit more, design a little bit more product, a little bit more prudently and then focusing more on growth.