I wasn’t supposed to end up here — at least that’s what the statistics would’ve said. I started my life in Haiti, where survival wasn’t a metaphor, it was the air we breathed. My childhood wasn’t built on stability or opportunity; it was built on improvisation. Every day was a problem set I didn’t ask for but somehow kept solving.

That’s where I learned my first skill as a future founder: adapt fast or get left behind.

Coming to the U.S. didn’t suddenly erase all that. If anything, it added a whole new set of mountains. I didn’t grow up around wealth or generational guidance. I had to learn financial literacy the same way I learned everything else — by failing first, then figuring it out. Credit, loans, investing, saving… none of it was handed to me. I built it the way you build anything that matters: slowly, painfully, and with more discipline than motivation.

But there were moments. Moments that cracked something open in me.

Buying my dream car — the Tesla.
Landing my dream job — SpaceX.

Those weren’t flexes. They were checkpoints. Proof that I wasn’t crazy for believing I could climb out. Proof that a Haitian kid who grew up dodging problems could end up building rockets.

Working at SpaceX was the first time in my life I felt like I had a front-row seat to the future. Running operations, learning how the Starship fleet moved, watching impossible ideas turn into metal and fire — it rewired me.

That’s when it clicked:

I didn’t have to build Elon’s dreams for the rest of my life. I could build my own.

Seeing the way SpaceX pushed ideas from sketch to prototype to “ship it even if it’s ugly” taught me the real secret: every dream is just an MVP with bugs. Nobody starts perfect. Nobody starts ready. You build, you break, you fix, you relaunch.

That spark is what turned me from an employee into a founder.

I realized that everything I thought was survival was actually training. Every setback made me resourceful. Every hardship made me resilient. Every win showed me I could build something real.

And that’s how Valor AI was born — a platform built for the community that raised me into the man I am: veterans. People who’ve lived real life. People who know what struggle feels like. People who deserve systems that actually work for them.

Valor AI isn’t just a business. It’s the chapter where I stop surviving and start building a legacy.

From Haiti to SpaceX to founder — this is me turning my story into service.

And I’m just getting started.