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When he was 9 years old, Proud taught himself HTML after seeing a book called "Your Own Website" in a store, according to Forbes. By age 12, he was already building professional websites.
Proud says he always had a desire to attend college, but by the time he had graduated from high school, he had a change of heart, as Forbes reports. Instead, the South London native opted to join Peter Thiel's fellowship in 2011 — a program in which the billionaire investor pays young entrepreneurs to skip out on a traditional college education to pursue their business ideas.
Proud's first startup, GigLocator, was the product of his time in Thiel's fellowship. GigLocator, a live music aggregation service, was bought by the owner of the Williamsburg-based Brooklyn Bowl venue almost immediately after Proud'completed Thiel's program in 2012.
After GigLocator was bought, Proud began working on Hello Inc. The Sense sleep tracker is Hello Inc.'s first product, and it will retail for $129 when it eventually launches.
The secret to making a successful tech product, Proud says, is to create something that works so well it fits naturally into your everyday life.
"Technology is most valuable when you don't have to think about it," Proud said to Business Insider previously. "That's when it becomes magical."
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