Chapter 01Origin
AP Computer Science, then a $100 mockup, then a studio.
Coding was the side obsession through middle and high school. My mom's close friend — a computer engineer — handed me a Python book one summer, and that was the door. I built my first site in middle school: a plain HTML portfolio of me, for no one in particular. In high school a friend asked for a mockup for his business and paid me $100. The site was rough, but the part where someone trusted me with their business name stuck. Design was just a matter of getting better at it after that.
First paid gig: $100. Still keeping receipts.