My 20 year Entrepeneurship journey

Hi everyone,

Here because I hate reddit xD Digg was awesome, glad to see it back.

A little bit about me:

Started my journey founding online communities (SoccerOD, VGCity) which grew to tens of thousands of users. That taught me the fundamentals of building engaged communities from scratch.

Then came Sharkius Games during the Facebook gaming boom - we built social games like Metropolis, Simmbook, and Mafia Cities that hit hundreds of thousands of DAUs. Wild times in the early social gaming era.

The big one was Chessable - an ed-tech startup applying science-based learning and gamification to chess education. We bootstrapped it, "Flintstoned" the early days (manually importing courses line by line), and grew it into the market leader in online chess education. Acquired in 2019 by the World Champion's company.

That exit let me give back through angel investing and advising other founders on finding PMF and scaling.

Now I'm building Seozilla.ai (AI-powered content automation) and advising Alive Games (3D gaming tools for Roblox, Fortnite, etc.).

Still can't stop the side projects either - currently tinkering with an exercise snacks app and a Spanish learning tool.

Key lesson: Embrace the unglamorous grind early on. The manual work that doesn't scale often teaches you the most about your users.

Happy to answer questions about exits, pivots, or the realities of serial entrepreneurship.