Nathan Barry

And I would just say, oh, good guess.

Because it was a good guess.

It was wrong, but it was a good guess.

And they were like, yeah, this kid's 17 and he's in class.

I just never corrected it.

But that meant that people would at least somewhat accept and include me.

And then I learned a lot in college, like all the navigating classes and living on my own.

I ended up living in a house just off campus with my older siblings.

And that was a good experience.

And I just kept learning and trying to figure out more ways to make money.

So I was born in 1990, so I was 14, and my very first high school girlfriend introduced me to web design.

And nothing came of that relationship except for my entire career.

She was the one who showed me like, hey, you can build a website and put it on GeoCities.

You can write HTML and all of this stuff.

So I became obsessed.

And I remember I built a website for the Idaho Chess Association.

My younger brothers played chess.

And I got paid $75 to design a logo and $300 to design that website.

And that was like my first freelance income, maybe when I was 15 or so.

And then as I was going to college, I kept taking on more design projects and learning how to build websites more and doing all of that.