Why I'm Building AI Education for Kids

I didn’t think I’d hear back from Runway after months passed.

This morning, I got accepted into their Builders program.

I’m incredibly grateful, not just for the tools—which let me apply creative problem-solving—but because it means an institution believes in the mission I’m building toward:

AI education for kids. So no one gets left behind.

I chose this for a reason that isn’t strategic. It’s personal. And it goes back further than I usually talk about.

The Waiting

When I was a kid, my parents would sometimes forget to pick me up from school. Not because they didn’t care. Because they were immigrants trying to figure it all out, working to keep their heads above water with no room to breathe.

So I’d wait. And in that waiting, I learned early what it feels like to be left behind while the world moves on without you.

That feeling didn’t leave. It followed me through high school and college, into 2008, when I watched the floor drop out and spent those years lost—like everyone else got a map and mine never came.

So I taught myself. Wikipedia was where my curiosity went to find the what, the how, the when, and the why, because the books were already dated by the time they reached us. I learned that continuous learning isn’t a habit. It’s a survival skill.

The Gap

The same patterns exist today.

I spent my career in programmatic AdTech and FinTech, industries that ran on AI long before it was a headline. I know what this technology actually does. And I know the gap between the people who understand it and the people who don’t is about to get a lot wider.

Every stage prepared me:

• The waiting taught me what being left behind feels like.
• The lost years taught me that learning is survival.
• The career taught me how the technology and the real world actually work.

Kids today are inheriting a world being reshaped by AI, and most of what they hear about it is fear. What it takes. Who it replaces. Why to be afraid.

It’s on every feed they scroll.

The Mission

I can’t ignore that pattern, because I lived every part of it.

Closing that gap, early, for kids—I’ve decided that’s my job.

Trending Society is the vehicle I’m going to do it with. Every kid left waiting should know someone is looking out for them.

That is the core mission.