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Varys grew up in a remote village in Turkey, earned a place at a top university for computer science before dropping out just before COVID, attempted an early startup that collapsed, then rebuilt from zero inside a tech company. He now operates as a solopreneur, building MVPs and systems independently. His worldview was shaped less by formal success than by failure, rebuilding, and repeated exposure to inefficient systems and misaligned incentives.
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