36-year-old Damjan Dano spent 17 years building a wildly successful service company before deciding it was time to build something more scalable.
In 2018, he started building Aqtos and it has been a slow grind, but he's finally in the process of rolling it out to the public. And just in time — he's been draining his bank account by self-funding a team of 15 people.
Here's a peek at his finances.
First real income
Damjan earned his first online dollar in 7th grade when he signed up for a referral program and made $20–$30. Then, he turned around and spent it on books about the internet — an investment that would later pay off.
A year later, he made his first "real" income — $100 — by designing a website for a local business using Dreamweaver. And it snowballed from there.
He has spent nearly two decades running profitable service businesses in the information and communications technology industry. In fact, one was so successful that it still pays him substantial dividends on a yearly basis.
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