THIMOTEI BARCZYK

One image sums up that period. In a meeting room, my father and several adults in suits were discussing serious matters. In the same room, I was a child playing on a Nintendo Switch. I did not yet understand their world, but I could observe it from very close. That contrast stayed with me.

Those memories gradually became curiosity, then a desire to try things myself. When I was ten, I drew a business plan on a flip chart for a company I called Lanceaucorp. The idea was ambitious and still childish: help companies grow around the world and help people create their own. It was not a precocious success story. It was the first visible sign of a passion I would later choose to deepen.

Curiosity was only a starting point. I then needed vocabulary, methods and perspectives beyond my own experience. The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman was the first entrepreneurship book I read from beginning to end. It helped me organise what I had observed and pushed me to keep reading, testing and learning. Entrepreneurship became important to me not because it was automatic, but because I deliberately kept exploring it.