shayaan azeem

what i'm up to lately:

• building a community for cracked/ambitious teenagers building cool sh*t
• started my own summer camp to teach kids how to code
• building a chrome extension for google docs

some cool things i've done in the past:

• spent a year building autonomous drones to predict forest fires [backed by bloomberg philanthropies] [offered $250k preseed]
• worked as a growth intern at hack club, grew @starthackclub to 100k followers
• organized canada's largest high school hackathon, raised $50k
• founded robotics club at my hs, ranked top 62 in the world
• won bronze [3rd place] at the canadian world robot olympiad.

how i started:

i've always been really creative, and a builder at heart, from a young age always wanted to sell things tried to become an entrepreneur with everything

• at 13 i was doing freelance video editing and design on upwork and fiverr (got banned from upwork for being underage)
• also at 13 i started a tech review youtube channel (hit 50k views 500 subs and got into twitter but lowkey gave up too early) {this taught me perfection is the enemy of good}
• at 14 i made my first $10k from crypto
• at 15 i launched my first venture dropshipping fingerprint padlocks (made one sale and net loss 😭)

where do i see myself in 10 years:

probably still building in tech, maybe in a niche like environmental or health tech. i'm not exactly sure where i'll end up, but i know i want to be creating products that make a real positive impact on people's lives. i might also be involved in venture capital, supporting other builders. and i hope i'm still fostering community and creating spaces for cool people to connect.