Growing up on Caribbean islands with math as the constant

Yeah, and my name is Luigi. I am Sergio's brother. I initially got my start off in ⁓ finance and moved into tech. This is my second startup. Previously co-founded a cross-border payments startup that uses stable coins to transfer money across continents. And yeah, now Sergio and I are building what is to be the engine for building better machine learning models and in the future. scientific discovery.

⁓ lovely. Actually, I would like you to take us to the Caribbean islands and which one you would like to take from. I think you have lived across four of them, right? let's go there and then help us visualize your story. How did this all started? Your drive for science, for math. especially and even airplanes as I heard so from the toothpaste boxes yeah I think that will be a great starting point what do you think?

Yeah. I'm going to, actually I spoke to Luigi about this and I think when we younger we lived on many other islands that I have like since forgotten. So I'm going to give it to Luigi to speak about that because my memory doesn't actually exist from that time.

Yeah, yeah. So Sergio and I grew up on small Caribbean islands. I remember about about 10 of them. Sergio maybe a little a little less. So we started in St. Lucia, which is

that explains the discrepancy between me, I was talking to Sejia the other day, was like but Luigi told me 10 islands, no it's 4, I was like okay but I am sure, I even noted on the paper, I was like okay then maybe I wanted to make it 10,

Yeah.

haha We moved around quite a lot when we were younger, mainly for our parents' work. But what that allowed us to do is experience a lot of different cultures and have the opportunity to restart a ton of times, which I think was very formative for us. And because we had to move around a lot, and I got really into math. It was one of those things that you could carry on with you. And as we grew up, we came up together and got better together. By the end of it, I think we're both doing grad level research, grad level math. And, you know, throughout our time growing up on these small islands, you know, going to the beach, the thing that really kept us together and kept us striving for something more was a shared interest in, you know, the fundamental truths of the universe. And yeah, to us, like these can most easily be read in math.