Short Bio
22 years old, start-up founder, futurist and a self-taught molecular biologist.
My life goals
I want to build a S.T.A.R Labs x Bell Labs-inspired mega corporation full of genius people, building and commercialising tech that will radically increase human lifespans and enhance human capabilities
What drives me
Have you ever had a vision of the future so clear that it's painful to wake up everyday and not see it here yet? Painful to imagine why it hasn't happened yet, why no one else has tried to make it a reality, or why the few people that are trying to make it happen are moving incrementally instead of exponentially. That is me every day thinking of all the unrealized benefits we could get from better science and technology.
My life story so far
- Born and raised in Uganda for most of my life.
- Started reading a lot about nanoengineering and programmable matter in high school.
- Realized that I could self-teach and sit my finals. Did this and skipped a grade (Year 12) to fast track to uni.
- Went to uni to study civil engineering x material science so I could one day make space elevators and medical nanobots happen. While there, I stumbled onto a breakthrough on the nanobot side of things... they already exist!! proteins and enzymes ARE literally biological nanobots. This is partly why I dropped out after a year. To speed run making these happen, alongside other critical biotechnologies (longevity & enhancement).
- After somehow convincing my parents that it was worth it to drop out and spend the next 2 years of my life teaching myself biochemistry and building a business so I could “change the world”, I went full force.
- Original plan was to make a few million dollars from marketing and funnel it into open-ended biotech research. BUT, it turns out marketing was not interesting enough, and worse, it distracted me from the original mission (science!)
- New plan: skip the detour & do the science myself. This time by building a collaborative virtual lab for biologists, hoping its revenue could act as a cash cow for the moonshot R&D projects. It flopped.
- But the failure taught me something critical: software and ops aren’t the major bottleneck to scifi-grade biotech, Chemistry is.
- That original idea from high school (nanobots that can actually control biology) is what I should have led with all along.
- That plus a bunch of related bioengineering techniques (bioprinting, real time cell engineering, etc…) is what I'm building now... with the help of some very cool people.
- work in progress. More coming soon…..