I was five years old when my parents packed everything we owned into two suitcases and flew from Guangdong to San Francisco. This was 1984. China wasn't the China of today. My parents wanted one thing: a better life for my brother and I.

I don't remember much about the flight. I remember the apartment. Small. Cold in winter. My parents working shifts that started before I woke up and ended after I fell asleep. My mother would always leave food with smiley faces. My father would come home smelling like kitchen grease and still ask me about school.

They never complained. Not once. They carried the weight of two lives — the one they left behind and the one they were trying to build — and they never let me see them buckle.

By twelve, I was selling baseball cards at a local baseball card store. Not because anyone told me to. Because I watched my parents work eighteen-hour days and something in me said: figure it out yourself. I got paid in cards. I learned what people wanted. I learned how to read a face. I learned that the kid who shows up every day eventually outsells the kid with better cards.

I dropped out of high school at fifteen. Truth is, school and I were never a good fit—I wasn't a great student, got into fights, and ended up getting kicked out of three different high schools. I know how that sounds. But I wasn't dropping out of learning—I was dropping into it.

Right after, I got a job as a telemarketer. I was calling grown adults, reading scripts I barely believed in, getting hung up on forty times a day. Within six months, I was managing people in their thirties. While most kids my age were worrying about prom, I was learning the only lesson that ever mattered in business: rejection is information. Every “no” teaches you what “yes” sounds like.

The classroom couldn't teach me what the phone could.

We launched IM8 in December 2024. Within eleven months, we became the fastest growing supplements brand ever recorded, reaching $100 million in annual recurring revenue.

But the number I care about isn't the revenue. It's the messages. Thousands of them. People telling us their energy came back. That they're sleeping through the night for the first time in years. That their doctor noticed the difference. That's the number that matters.

In June 2025, Aryna Sabalenka—the world's number one tennis player—joined us. Not as a face on a billboard, but as a partner and shareholder. Then in February 2026, Ollie Bearman, the youngest British F1 driver in history, came on board. Same deal—partner, shareholder, friend.

And most recently, in early April, Giannis Antetokounmpo joined IM8.

What matters most to me is how each of these relationships started. They weren't the result of a pitch. They reached out after using the product—after putting it through the demands of their own training—and feeling the difference for themselves. More energy. Better recovery. Real, noticeable impact.

These are some of the highest-performing athletes in the world. They don't compromise on what they put into their bodies. They tested IM8, they trusted it, and they chose to be part of it.

They're not ambassadors.

They're partners. Shareholders. And friends.

None of us needs to do this. David doesn't need another business. Aryna doesn't need another endorsement. I don't need another company to run. We've all had success in our careers.

We choose to do this because we want IM8 to have a global impact on millions of lives. Because I think about my parents — who gave everything so I could have something — and I want to build something that gives back. Because I think about my kids, and I want them to see their father building something that actually matters.

IM8 is 90+ clinically dosed ingredients in one drink. It's NSF Certified for Sport. It was developed with scientists from leading medical institutions. It replaces the sixteen bottles I used to juggle every morning with one thing I actually trust.

I'm not going to tell you it'll change your life. I'm going to tell you it changed mine. And if you've ever sat with the feeling that you should be doing more for your health but you're not sure where to start — I built this for you. The same way I built it for myself, for my family, and for my kids.