I started writing a personal blog to practice my writing skills, inspired by Paul Graham's impactful writing that helps startup founders.

After being rejected by Y Combinator with their initial idea, we were invited to join the program under the condition that we work on something else, which led to the creation of Reddit.

After quitting my job at Amazon, I moved to San Francisco where I found a co-founder and began working on various startup ideas without being picky about the market.

My fiancé and co-founder, Sandra, encouraged me to drop my studies and move to Zagreb, Croatia, where we began working on various projects, learning a lot despite many failures.

I met my co-founder Joe Gebbia at RISD, and together we decided to start a company without a clear idea of what it would be.

In college, I wanted to create products that connected me with the community around me, which led to the realization that I needed to build software that others would use too.

We started doing user research in earnest, which opened our minds to the entire world of urban planning we now work in.

I found Y Combinator because I was on Reddit during graduate school, where I discovered Paul Graham's essays that inspired me to pursue starting a company, despite the prevailing belief that the web was over after the dot-com crash.

During the early days, I had to prove my concept without a website, relying on initial sales and mock-ups to validate my business idea.