From corporate to founder.
The part nobody talks about.

I came here at seventeen.
I built the rest myself.

I moved to the U.S. from Hungary at seventeen, didn't speak the language, and was told to pick a safe career. I picked the opposite.

In 2012, I started a water filtration company out of a garage. Today, AquaQuote serves NASA, SpaceX, P&G, the VA, and the U.S. Navy. We did seven figures last year. I run it without me — it runs while I sleep.

Along the way I raised investor capital for a software startup that didn't work. I shut it down. I learned more from that failure than from anything else I've done.

Now I write and speak about what becoming a founder actually looks like — the boring parts, the embarrassing parts, the part where you cry in the airport and then keep going. The business doesn't change first. You do.

• 2012Founded AquaQuote (water filtration, 7-figure B2B)
• 2018Raised investor capital for SaaS startup. Shut it down.
• 2023Started writing on LinkedIn. 173K followers and counting.
• 2024TEDx speaker on AI & entrepreneurship.
• 2025Launched The Entrepreneurial Mindset newsletter.
• NowBuilding Microbusiness Ideas — the media brand for founders.