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Where did your vision come from?

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What's the backing behind it?

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I have always been a person who has been into like editing

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and proofreading.

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So I was the nerd in English class

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that like enjoyed going through Shakespeare, right?

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Everyone else was like, this is stupid.

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Why are we doing?

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This is pretty cool.

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I love this.

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Can we do more of this?

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And I was the guy in college who would, you know,

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proofread their friends' papers for fun

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just because I enjoyed it.

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So the vision for this really, I mean,

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it's just part of my personality and just my own skillset.

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But the vision came actually out of COVID

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because I had a prior career in the corporate world.

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I was 15 years, I was in the corporate world.

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The first 10 I enjoyed it, the last five I hated it.

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So I desperately wanted to do something different,

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but I was afraid to take action.

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So COVID took action for me.

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I lost my job like so many people did.

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And I said, okay,

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I don't wanna go back to the corporate world, please.

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Like, I don't wanna do that.

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What else can I do?

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And so I kind of went back to this idea

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of proofreading and editing.

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And I thought, well, maybe people would pay me to do that.

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And it turns out people will pay to do that.

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So really it was an opportunity for me to do something

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that actually aligned with who I was and what I enjoyed

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and also provide that value and benefit to the world.

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And it was something that because of the internet

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and because of sites like Upwork and other things,

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I had the opportunity.

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So it was kind of that Venn diagram, right?

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Right in the center of the Venn diagram.

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For me, it was proofreading, editing, writing.

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And so that's really what started the vision

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was realizing I could do it,

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realizing that there was a market for it

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and realizing that I could actually grow this thing

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and help people and make the internet

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a slightly better place, right?

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That was important to me.