Our founder is a passionate individual whose journey began not with code, but in water.
He started swimming at age three and joined a competitive team just before turning eight. For approximately fifteen years, he trained nearly every day until he was eighteen. Swimming taught him resilience, focus, and the power of consistent effort — lessons that shaped the way he would later approach learning and building.
Academically, though, things were harder. As a child, he didn't perform well in school. Teachers and classmates assumed he wasn't cut out for academics. Yet he loved reading, often sneaking away to libraries to borrow books. What he recognized — in himself and in others — was something deeper: learned helplessness. Many students weren't failing because they lacked ability, but because they had been conditioned to believe they couldn't succeed.
At university in Taiwan, this realization grew clearer. He experienced intense peer pressure and saw how mentally strong one had to be to thrive. It wasn't just a local issue. Across Asia, students face enormous exam pressure, while around the world, inequalities in resources and opportunities still hold countless learners back.
He had been using global learning platforms like Khan Academy, MathTutorDVD, and 3Blue1Brown for his own studies. Through these experiences, he came to understand the strengths and weaknesses of Asian education — rigorous discipline but heavy stress — and the creativity and critical thinking celebrated in Western education. Later, after transferring to a German university, he witnessed firsthand how technology and AI were transforming learning. These experiences gave him a unique perspective: every system has strengths, every system has challenges.
From this global view grew a simple but powerful idea: What if we could bring the best of these worlds together? A rigorous foundation from the East, paired with creativity and joyful learning from the West.