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Building @yourpersona

Toronto, Ontario
Joined April 2026
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Sooooo I just quit my job as CTO of Meuze. A year ago I was in my dorm room at McGill. Never thought I’d turn down Amazon, build a startup with a Formula One driver, or help take it to $9M in contracted ARR in eight weeks. Now I’m taking another chance on myself and joining @yourpersona as CTO. Proud of what we built and grateful for the people I got to build it with. I didn’t get here without taking risks on myself, so here’s to another one. Can’t wait to see what the future holds.
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Today marks exactly one year since I launched my first solo app resumax.ai Surreal seeing I’ve earned over $30k from the app, after spending only 23 days last year building it. It’s crazy how easy it is to build a winning product with AI these days (especially when you build in public) Moving on to bigger and better things now, can’t wait to share more
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It’s a shame I couldn’t give the app the attention it deserved to properly scale, as I went all in on my startup almost immediately after launch. Now looking to sell the app to anyone that wants to take it forwards!
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Loving life recently. Never been more busy between all the travel and work, but I couldn’t be happier. Literally dreamt of this life as a kid.
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Full vlog on YT
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Get your head down and work
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There’s no shortcut to success
One thing about me, you will never outwork me. Building @yourpersona - we just raised a $10M Pre-Seed and I’ve been averaging 91 hours of work a week ever since I’ve joined… Big things coming soon 👀
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One thing about me, you will never outwork me. Building @yourpersona - we just raised a $10M Pre-Seed and I’ve been averaging 91 hours of work a week ever since I’ve joined… Big things coming soon 👀
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Crazy how much your life can change with one year of hard work…
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Got flown out to New York by OpenAI for 48 hours. Still feels pretty surreal that this is my life right now. Full vlog is live on YouTube 💪
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Spent 48 hours in NYC after getting flown out by OpenAI. Crazy to think what my life could’ve looked like if I never took the risk, going all in on myself and turning down that $200k Amazon job. Can’t believe this is my life, I couldn’t be happier.
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Blows my mind how far you can get with a little bit of hard work.
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Six months ago, @meuzeai didn’t exist. Since then, we’ve built the product, opened our first office, grown the team, started rolling out across thousands of locations, and reached $9M in contracted ARR in just 8 weeks. Check out the full story of how we got here on YT 🤝
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Your life can completely change with just 6 months of hard work. I never would’ve believed I’d be the CTO of a multi million dollar startup, with an office in my dream city. Now I’m building @meuzeai with @jackdoohanok, and we are currently contracted to $9M ARR. Still can’t believe this is real…
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48 hours in NY on a Meuze work trip, with my boy Roy Schneider
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How we scaled @meuzeai to $9M ARR contracted in just 8 weeks. Six months ago, none of this existed. Since then, we’ve built the product, opened our first office, grown the team, started rolling out across thousands of locations, and we are only just getting started…
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Summer camp with @OpenAI in upstate New York. Life’s crazy.
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Eight years ago, I wrote my first line of code. Now I’m 22, building a tech company as CTO, and somehow getting to document the entire journey along the way. Still can’t believe how far coding has taken me.
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My 8 year coding journey that led to me becoming the CTO of a multi million dollar tech startup, earning contracted $9M ARR in just 8 weeks. Crazy how much your life can change with a few years of hard work…
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The best startup to build in 2026 is a vertical AI company. AI has completely changed what’s possible for small teams. Instead of building for everyone, build the best solution for one industry and solve a problem they deal with every single day. If I were starting again today, that’s exactly what I’d build.
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