0-2 years
- Born in France, Paris
- Became french citizen
- Norwegian/Lithuanian mother, Moldavian/Russian father
2-6
- Moved to Norway, Oslo, Sogn.
- Went to “Rektorhaugen barnehage”
6-12
- Went to Tåsen barneskole
- Played fotball, pokemon and Runescape
During this period I was spending most time with:
- Knut (1-7) - Played Pokemon etc. common interest in Manga/Anime
- Ole (5-7) - I think it was Runescape that was the common
- Daniel (2-4) - Played tennis and Runescape together
- Christopher (1-2) - Cannot remember what we did, maybe fotball
As far as I can remember.
12-15
- Went to Nordberg undomskole
- Started being very interested in chess, became one of the best players in Europe
- Travelled a lot around in Norway to play tournaments
- Trained a lot and started training martial arts (kung fu + Muy Thai boxing)
- I quit ninth grade for “home schooling”, in reality I was using all my time learning to play the piano, it was an obsession.
- I started again in tenth grade at Nordberg, finished with pretty good grades
- I remember being very interested in atheism and debating
16-19
- I started on the “pre-IB” studiespesialisering at Berg high school
- I was becoming obsessed with learning, I took the whole math curriculum in 1 year (1T, R1, R2) as privatist and a few other subjects
- first year of high school I was absent almost all the time, school was “too easy” and boring
- I emailed the principal of the school, and told him I wanted to jump over the second year, it was accepted
- Finished high school in 2 years with good grades + one university math course (MAT1100, kalkulus)
- During high school I read a lot on economics theory and political theory, I was debating all the time
19-20 - “free” year
- Took some sales jobs as my first “real job” ever. Learning sales is a useful skill, do not regret it.
- Became obsessed with learning new languages. Focusing mostly on latin and germanic languages.
- Worked part time at Tåsen barneskole (the same school I went to)
20-22
- Started on a computer science (programmering og nettverk) bachelor
- Finished the bachelor in 1.5 year by taking 230 study points in 3 semesters. I only used 170 of those since I had 10 points from high school (mat1100)
- This was an insane fun period, really loved studying and working with other students
21-22
- Starting working in a consultant company “Netcompany”
- Took part in 2 projects, 1 at Kulturrådet and the other at Oslo kommune
- At the same time as working fulltime I took 20 studiepoeng each semester, some physics and computer science courses like “OS”
- I was at the end of this period going back to study to finish a master in digital signal processing
22-23
- Took a summer job at Axpo nordic as data scientist, learned quite a lot about the energy market
- I ended up quitting the master studies due to 2 reasons: I was becoming very interested in accounting and starting working with “Famme” a sportswear brand two brother’s started
- I started working at Tripletex as a developer, which I contacted myself due to my interest in accounting
- I was working at the same time with “Famme”
- Learned a lot about accounting (doing årsregnskap myself for Famme)
23-26
- I quit Tripletex to continue fulltime with Famme, due to 1/3 ownership I wanted to as fastest work to grow and sell the company
- Took the role as CEO, overseeing “all departments”
- Still working with Famme at this point, also started a few other projects that has not taken off yet.
- Launched respiroc.com as an accelerator for E-commerce businesses. Funded purete.no, skincare brand, still work in progress.
- Became very interested in SEO and achieved good results for famme.no
- Learned a diverse set of skills, everything from marketing, production, warehouse, programming etc.
- Bought my first apartment all cash in Oslo, Sogn. Renting it out as of this writing.
25-26
- Started actively training again, aiming for 150 push-ups straight, 30 hang ups straight etc. (ref. new year resolutions)
- Trying to reignite my passion for music + languages
- Not sure about what to do with my life, do I really want to use several years on E-commerce?