Robert Nikic: My First Company at 13

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I started a little hosting company when I was 13 years old. Okay. So I was 13. What did I know? And at the end of the day, along that journey, I've had just so many failed startups, and I just kept failing and failing and failing. And nothing worked, plain and simple. When I look back now, the timing wasn't right. And I got really torn down about it, because my family came from nothing. We came from the Balkan War, immigrated to Germany, then immigrated to the States. So my family really relied on me. I was the oldest sibling in the house, and my parents didn't speak English. So the only reason I got into startup culture, or entrepreneurship in general, is because I had to, not because I really wanted to.