How I Went from Selling Weed at 15 to Founding a #startup at 42
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I was always a restless, creative type. Sitting down absorbing information with no practical or creative outlet has never really been my style. I like to learn and put into practice at the same time. I learn faster, and am much more interested in what I’m doing if I can actually try it out for myself.I was pretty bored in high school, as I usually found myself ahead of most of the class and it was mostly rote learning anyway. So when a friend introduced me to smoking weed at around the age of 14, I quickly took a liking to it as it alleviated a lot of the boredom I was experiencing at the time.We were living in the countryside, and the same friend brought me over some marijuana seeds one day. I very quickly took up a passion for horticulture, and seeing as we lived on a big property, my (...)