Your origin doesn't determine your destiny (but it does determine your starting speed)

There are uncomfortable truths, and this is one of them: Not everyone starts with the same opportunities. Saying otherwise is a very profitable lie for some.

I grew up in an environment where no one asked about your dreams, only about your problems. Opportunities didn't come knocking: you had to create them.

Many of you who follow me don't even know that I spent my entire childhood in foster care centers. With nothing. With no one. And what you see now "my companies, my travels, my teams" some interpret as inherited wealth. More than once I've been asked whose son I am, implying whether I come from a wealthy family.

The reality is quite the opposite. In my home, there was only enough money for one plate on the table. Talking about a second course, dessert... that was science fiction.

I tell all of this in detail in my two books. I'm not mentioning them to sell you anything, but to avoid extending here a story that's already explained where it belongs. Maybe I'm not the character you expected to follow; maybe you're just killing time reading one more post among thousands. But if you really want to understand where I come from, there you have it all, without embellishments.

When I left the foster care centers, I had no contacts, no money, no favors, no safety net to cushion my decisions. I had something more useful: urgency. The urgency not to repeat the life assigned to you by default.

People often think that origin is a sentence. I see it as a starting point with friction: it slows you down, wears you out, but trains you to survive in environments where others freeze.

That initial resistance served me well. When I built my first companies, I already knew how to face pressure, uncertainty, and risk. And I understood something simple: the market is not harder than real life.

Today I lead projects in several countries, have teams in more than five, and manage everything from Ukraine, where I've lived for years. My work doesn't run on inspiration. It runs on determination. It runs because I never accepted the narrative others had written for me.

My origin doesn't define me. My destiny isn't guaranteed either. The only thing that defines my path is what I decide to do every day.

You can't choose where you're born. But you can choose where you end up.