I started the site when I was 19. I did not know what I was doing. Most great things are started by people who do not know what they are doing.
I was 22 when I started this. People told me I was too young to build a healthcare company. But the kids we treat are 15, 16, 17. They couldn't wait for me to get older.
I was 24 when I started this company. People told me I was too young to sell to Fortune 500 HR departments. Turns out HR departments don't care how old you are if your outcomes data is better than everyone else's.
At 19, I was the youngest Indian to receive the Thiel Fellowship. Peter Thiel paid me $100,000 to drop out of college. Best education I never got.
Pedro and I started our first company in Brazil at 14. We were too young to sign the incorporation papers. Our parents had to do it.
I was coding at 8, running a web business at 14, and had 25 employees in high school. My parents had no idea what I was doing. Neither did I, honestly. I just knew I wanted to build things.
People tell me I'm too young to give financial advice. I was trading millions of dollars at JP Morgan at 22. Age isn't credibility — experience is. And I've been in the room where the money moves.
Start something while you are still in school. You will never have less to lose than right now.
We were 19 when we started Zepto. People said we were too young. Then they said 10-minute delivery was impossible. We proved both wrong.
I bought my first steel mill at 26 in Indonesia. Everyone said I was too young. The mill did not care how old I was.
I took over at twenty-eight because life did not give me a choice. You grow up fast when you have to.
If you want to understand where the Middle East is going, do not watch the oil price. Watch what the young people are building.
I was 25-26 and at that age, you had no fear of failure. You felt you could do anything.
When you are young, your ability to take risks is very high.