Live to Create

A couple years ago, I found myself in a weird position.

I was great at school, enjoyed sports, videogames and reading from time to time. I was your typical 14 year old.

But as time passed, my ambition for building something great out of the skills I had grew stronger and stronger with each day. The constant feeling of building something started to take over my mind. I felt I had to do something about it, but figured I would begin by finding someone who shared the same feeling of creating something great for the world.

With this in mind, I talked with a friend who happened to share this same ambition. A few weeks later we started what would turn out to be my first entrepreneurial venture. Beyond the pride I had from calling myself a business owner or Entrepreneur, I had finally fulfilled something far greater: Building something I believed in.

That business eventually failed. After a year and a half finding clients became almost impossible and the results we were bringing to our clients weren’t really the most optimal. The business decayed, but my motivation to create only grew stronger and I had accumulated a vast set of skills that I wouldn’t had been able to gain otherwise.

Think, being a 15 year old and with a business that already failed. What’s there to loose? I thought to myself that If I keep on with this pace for the next decade, maybe a great company would turn out from my efforts.

My next obvious step was to seek that next venture. After reading and studying what some of the greatest the lives of some of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time, I realized that the building blocks of every single business, piece of software or great startup idea, starts with understanding how things work from a technical scope. I had to learn how to code.

Today, as I find myself going into my senior year of high school, I can confidently look back and say that I wouldn’t be the same person I am today without the great lessons entrepreneurship and programming have taught me. Today I practice their intersection daily, not only by building my own business around it, but also as a form of education. The great overlap I found hasn’t just been the foundation for a great part of my life. It has also turned out to be a movement that I’ve been sharing with young minds starting a year and a half ago. The Codepreneur Network is the product of years of tinkering and figuring out my passions, and as a result we’ve been able to impact hundreds of young individuals who are sometimes limited in terms of the education they can receive.

Our mission is simple: We want to turn young minds into avid problem solvers who can provide great value to the society of the future.

- Fabian