My drive doesn't come from a business book. It comes from watching my father.
He grew up in Albania during one of the hardest periods in its modern history — working from a young age, not for ambition, but for survival. To feed his siblings. To hold his family together. In 1993, shortly after the end of the dictatorship, he made his way to Santorini with almost nothing. He worked two, sometimes three jobs at a time. He didn't complain. He built.
Today, he runs a successful construction company on the island, working with some of Santorini's most prestigious hotels. He built that from zero.
Every time I see pride in his eyes when he looks at me, I feel something shift inside me. That look is fuel. It pushes me toward goals I once thought were out of reach.
I want to create value — real, tangible value — for businesses and for people. I believe the most powerful way to do that right now, at 18, is to build a startup. Not to get rich. To matter.