Elijah started his entrepreneurial journey buying and selling misspelled “macboks” and “ipoods” on eBay and flipping them for profit. Over the next decade, Elijah dropped out, taught himself to code, co-founded and raised $10M for a Silicon Valley startup and even lived on a sailboat for a year. Elijah’s current business, Matter Product Studio, builds and incubates software products for Fortune 1000 businesses and early stage entrepreneurs. In addition to Matter, Elijah writes at Grit List, a weekly newsletter focused on personal growth.
Show Notes
- How Elijah dropped out of college and taught himself coding
- “Experience starts when you push yourself to learn more and do more.”
- Getting past the loneliness of young entrepreneurship
- Being aware of your strengths and weaknesses
- Embracing the time that you have right now