Isaiah Taylor

And so I wanted to start a company.

But again, grew up very poor.

I didn't know that venture capital was a thing.

I didn't know that existed.

And all I knew was that in order to start SpaceX, Elon had sold Zip2, which is a company that he started, and then PayPal.

And that had given him enough money to then go start SpaceX, and he put a lot of money into that.

And so I figured that's probably what I needed to do.

And I knew there were already many, many smart people in the field with PhDs in nuclear engineering and nuclear physics who are smarter than I was ever going to be.

And so when I was thinking about how do I go about fixing nuclear energy and starting this company, I realized that the biggest problem for me to tackle was not going to school, going to college.

It was gaining wealth and gaining business experience.

And so naive, you know, my naivete said, well, then college is a waste of time.

And so I dropped out of school to start a business.

I was 16.

By that point, I had already taught myself software engineering.

So by the time I was a 16-year-old, I was already making six figures in my parents' basement writing software.

Just read books.

I found a book on C Sharp on my dad's shelf.

My dad's not a software engineer, but he's just a curious guy.

So he had a book on C Sharp.

I picked it up.