About me
Hi, I’m Nick.
I’m an entrepreneur building a portfolio of cashflowing digital products. I live in Malaysia with my beautiful wife and three kids.
These days, I walk my kids to school, work from a MacBook, and focus on building real freedom. The kind without bosses, meetings, or venture capital.
But it wasn’t always like this.
Just a few years ago, I was a C-suite executive at a fast-growing VC-backed startup, making a comfortable salary and flying across Southeast Asia. On paper, I’d “made it.” But in reality? I was trapped in an endless maze of OKRs, approval loops, strategy powerpoints, back-to-back meetings, and firefighting things that didn’t matter.
I burned out. I gained weight. And worst of all, I lost touch with the creative fire that got me into startups in the first place.
When our rental lease in Singapore came up for renewal, I joked to my wife that we could cut our living costs in half if we moved across the border to Malaysia. That joke became a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet became a plan. And the plan became real.
At 44, I quit.
I left the salary. I moved my family. I started over - building internet businesses I own, on my own terms.
Was I scared? Absolutely. When you’ve got kids, the stakes feel higher. But I realised:
Burnout doesn’t come from working hard. It comes from working on the wrong thing.
Today, we live a calm life in a house by the lake. I run a 2-person studio creating profitable digital products - no investors, no meetings, no chasing vanity metrics. Just meaningful, creative work with a remote team I trust.
The burnout’s gone. I eat better, sleep better and spend more time outdoors. I’m healthier and I show up fully for the people who matter most. I finally understand what Naval Ravikant meant:
“People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom.”
If you’re a founder, a creator, or just someone in their 40s and beyond quietly feeling stuck - this is for you.
It’s not too late to start again.
It’s not too late to build your thing.
And it’s never too late to become the latest, most savage version of you.
p.s. Follow along my midlife quest to reinvent work, health, and freedom - one calm cashflowing startup at a time - without VC.
