2015

Navigating Pivots, Embracing Lessons, and Charting New Paths TLTR: First daughter born. Mona handled ops, I did product/sales. Hit 3,000 SMB customers. SMB WiFi tough for vendors: tiny contracts, low volume. Prototyped wooden router for Siri/HomeKit, found iCloud 0-day exploit. Apple shrugged. Shelved home WiFi idea (for now). Not my fight. See you later again. Long-Version: In 2015, at 29, joy arrived. Our first daughter was born. Mona and I ran the company full-time. She owned operations. I drove product and sales. We crossed 3,000 SMB customers. Airfy was humming. The tech stood strong. The learning curve had been brutal. Yet this market felt like a dead end for me. SMB WiFi shines for resellers. For vendors, it's brutal. Death by countless small contracts. Too many clients. Too little volume. The grind wore thin. Around then, I sketched my first wooden router prototype. Part experiment. Part fun. Built for Siri, HomeKit, and pure curiosity. Tinkering led to an accident. We uncovered a 0-day remote iCloud exploit. My circle panicked. Apple stayed calm. Odd twist. Everyone boils the same water. The wooden router hit pause. Home WiFi wasn't my arena. Low margins. Corporate games. Not my style. I craved deeper challenges. Secure networks. Real impact. That year mixed family highs with business realities. Our daughter brought balance. Mona kept us steady. The punk spark lingered, pushing me toward bigger fights. Want more on the wooden router or SMB lessons?