""You learn quickly when life doesn't give you much room to wait," La Barrie says. "I had to figure things out on my own.""
""Sport teaches discipline, but building something teaches accountability," he says. "If it doesn't work, that's on you.""
""I saw the internet as a tool, not entertainment," he says. "It felt unfinished.""
Simeon La Barrie left school at 15 after his mother's death and assumed responsibility for his family, learning by observing, testing, and doing. He pursued Australian football and surfing while launching businesses that improved other companies' operations, guided by his grandfather's and father's business mindset. Discipline from sport combined with hands-on entrepreneurship to create accountability and practical problem solving. A 2000 visit to California revealed the internet's formative potential, and by 2010 he focused on building software emphasizing real-time interaction and presence, aiming to replicate connection before mainstream AI adoption.
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