some extra money?” At that time, I had no intention of not going through with law school. The day after, Carl had left, but I was still very much interested in learning more. So I did like what I recommend most people to do when they want to do something – I just started. The same evening, I had my first really ugly casino affiliate website up and running, and with some guidance from Carl, it started to take up more and more of my time. Fast forward 1.5 years, I was sitting in the lunch room of the law firm I was working at as an intern at the time, and I had a casual conversation with one of the associates there. I don’t know who brought it up, but the salary of this associate came up. And in my head I was like, “wait a minute, I am already making more money with my shitty casino affiliate website than this person working 10-12 hours a day” (Yes, I do understand that associates makes less than the seasoned lawyers, and that this person most likely makes more than that today). So that day, I decided that I was going to finish my current semester and then focus my attention on my casino affiliate business. I’d like to clarify that at that time, I was not hungry for the money; I was hungry for the freedom and challenge of running my own business. And being able to do all of that from a laptop was one of the really intriguing things for me (and something that was not that heard of back in 2017). Can you share a bit about your life before entering the online gaming world? I was born in 1991 and grew up in Helsingborg, Sweden. Coming from a liberal family, there was never any pressure on me to take a certain path in life. When a 13-year-old me saw a concert by the band Mando Diao, I instantly decided that I wanted to become a rock star. From that point, I bought my first guitar, created a really shitty (amazing) band with two friends and we started rehearsing in my dad’s basement. I became obsessed with mastering this instrument and even attended music school at the age of 15. Fast forward a couple of years, and I got invited to become the new guitar player in a local metal band. which he was drinking on the rocks. Me and Carl hit it off immediately, and when I asked Carl what he was working with, he said that he was building websites that compared online casinos. As a poor law student, hungry to learn new things, I was immediately intrigued. “What if I can do this on the side in order to make one guy from his old high school was going to stay at our place that night since he was attending a course in hypnotics in Stockholm that weekend. This guy’s name was Carl. Carl was a funny guy, and the only thing he brought was a single bottle of gin, I honestly don’t think it would have mattered that much what I wanted to do, if I woke up every day wanting it badly enough, and applied the right ways to get things done - it would eventually happen. 49 GPWAtimes.org
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