Glitch lore 👇 I don’t come from pedigree. No Ivy League background. No finance family. No Wall Street uncle. No “my dad taught me how to invest when I was 12” story. The only résumé I really had was being a top-tier Gunbound, MapleStory, League of Legends, and Fortnite player growing up. That was my entire world. I learned how to compete before I learned how to explain myself. My story started when I was very young, around 4, though honestly it’s hard to remember exactly. My first-generation immigrant parents divorced, and my sister and I were adopted by another pair of first-generation immigrant parents, who also eventually divorced over time. A lot of my childhood was shaped by instability; and at the center of almost all of it was money. Not in the abstract way people talk about “money problems.” I mean money as the thing that decides whether the lights stay on. Whether you can run water freely. Whether the house feels calm or tense. Whether adults are present or constantly fighting survival. I learned very early that the world runs on money and that money is power. And the cruel part is that most people are never taught how money works. If you’re born into a family that understands finance, it feels normal. You inherit the language. You inherit the confidence. You inherit the map. But if you’re not born into that world, financial literacy becomes something you have to earn the hard way; through stress, mistakes, survival, and watching what happens when no one around you has the tools. Whether it was at school, in games, in social circles, in almost every environment I entered, I’ve always been an underdog. I was bullied a lot growing up. Chronic bullying. The kind that wears you down slowly until you start believing maybe you really are less capable, less worthy, less likely to become anything. There were moments where my self-esteem hit the floor, and yet, gaming gave me something the real world didn’t; a scoreboard. In games, it didn’t matter where you came from. It didn’t matter how much money your family had. It didn’t matter what people thought of you outside the screen. If you were good, you were good and well-respected. But even then, I had constraints. I loved gaming, but we had to conserve electricity and water. There were times we literally lived in the dark with limited access to running water. So I couldn’t just grind endlessly like everyone else. Sometimes I only had an hour every few days. So I became obsessed with compression. How do I get better faster? How do I learn more in less time? How do I reach the highest level with the limited resources I have? That became the pattern of my life. I know people view hacking in games as illegitimate. And in many ways, it is. But the way I saw it as a kid was different. To me, it was like seeing the ceiling. It showed me what perfect execution looked like. What was mechanically possible. How far the game could be pushed based on how it was coded. Once I saw the limit, I could work backwards. What mechanics do I need? What timing matters? What does the best possible version look like? How do I train myself toward that? That mindset followed me into trading. When I entered the market, I saw the same game, except this time, the stakes were real. And the underdogs were getting absolutely destroyed. Not just their portfolios, but their LIVES. Retail traders were being sold dreams, hopium, alerts, Discord hype, recycled indicators, and decade-old technology while the people with the real edge kept compounding. The market became one of the most efficient machines in the world for transferring money from the people trying to change their lives to the people who already had the upper hand. And the platforms claiming to be “for the people” never really felt like they were built for the people. They were built around the system as it already existed. COVID made this even more obvious. More people were at home. More people entered the market. More people wanted a shot. But they were stepping into one of the most competitive arenas in the world with tools that were outdated, fragmented, and designed for a different era. I had used the tools, felt the gaps, and I had seen how much harder retail had to work just to see what others already knew. And the same questions came back to me from childhood: How do we compress the time from zero to one? How do we help someone experience what the highest-level of trading and investing actually looks like? How do we give retail traders access to precision, context, and performance that used to be reserved for people with institutional advantages? Those are all roads that led to Skylit. Skylit was never just a trading platform to me. It is the answer to a feeling I’ve had my entire life: That talented people are everywhere, but opportunity is not. That intelligence is everywhere, but access is not. That the underdog does not lose because they are incapable. They lose because the game is usually built and rigged before they ever arrive. I have been the underdog my whole life. But I’ve also learned something about underdogs. When they survive long enough, study hard enough, and finally get the right tools, they become dangerous. Retail traders have been the underdog for far too long, and I've decided to go all-in on them. It’s time to bet on the people who were never handed the map, but are willing to fight for the future of their bloodline anyway. That is why we’re building Skylit. We are building the operating system for agentic retail trading; a future where traders are not alone, not blind, and not forced to compete with outdated tools against people who have every structural advantage. Everyone deserves a real shot at compounding wealth. Everyone deserves a chance to change the trajectory of their bloodline. This is what I’ve been fighting for long before Skylit had a name. From living in the dark, to gaming with one hour every few days whilst your competitors grind 10+ hours a day, to studying markets, to building the platform I wish existed when I started. I’ve always been trying to do the same thing: Find the edge. Share the edge. And prove that underdogs can win. That’s the mission. And we're just getting started.