A non-exhaustive list of people that got me to where I am today:

- Mum, Dad, and Peter, for giving me 'the knack' for engineering.

- Mr O'Callohan, for introducing me to MIT Scratch, website builders and animated GIFs.

- Mrs Gill, for teaching me my first line of code - VBA in Excel.

- Michael, for teaching me C++, git, and how to make a MineCraft mod.

- Mr Stathopoulos, for telling my parents "he'll be a CTO some day", long before I knew what that meant.

- Patrick, for giving me my first software engineering work experience.

- Dr Cooper, for telling me I'd never make it to Cambridge for Maths, but might have a shot for Computer Science.

- Jenny, for every supervision we struggled through together.

- Zoey, for being the best hacker I know and still choosing to devote your career to something else.

- Matthew, for being such a perfect first boss.

- Tony, for being such a perfect second boss.

- Jonathon, for giving me the startup bug.

- Will, Jack and Tom, for the chance you took on me and every experience you gave me.

- David, for teaching me that every problem can be solved if you stop panicking and start solving.

- George, for keeping me honest and inspiring me every day with your hard work.

- Rhim, for everything we've built together.

- Gustaf, Jared, Jon and Diana, for everything you and YC gave us.

...tbc

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