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Posting the colour version on its own because I regret hiding it the first time ✨
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Hi there! I do not know you yet, but I have scrolled your blog and decided you are very cool and on my wavelength! I hope you enjoy headcanons, because I intend to talk about my thoughts on the OWV Founders!
I think the age list from oldest to youngest goes: Esker, Slate, Gossan, Feldspar, Hornfels. They all grew up taking care of each other and being very close. Feldspar was always mischievous and daring from a young age, dragging Slate with them and Gossan following to help or clean up. Esker only made sure they didn't die, and Hornfels usually stayed out of the trouble. They all separated into their trades in their late teens, but converged again to form even stronger bonds while building the space program from the ground up. My headcanon is that Hearthians are very loose with romantic/sexual relationships and often there were polyamorous dynamics. In this case: Feldspar/Slate/Gossan, Slate/Hornfels, and Esker/Hornfels (later on Gossan/Porphy/Slate). The canon Hatchling imo is a Gosspar baby, and Mica is a Feldslate baby. They were all very happy and proud of everything they had done. Except Feldspar. They never felt like they had lived up to the legend and was going mad when discoveries started to come up less and less. They flew out to Dark Bramble after riding the Giant's Deep cyclones for an adrenaline boost and was never heard from again. It tore the other Founders apart, splitting their relationships. They kept OWV going for the new recruits (Chert and Rieck, later Gabbro and Hatchling), but it was never the same. Gossan and Slate had a massive falling out after many small arguments, leading to the Eye Incident. Hornfels retreated to their studies and Esker stayed on the Attlerock. They went their own ways for what they thought was the greater good. Until the Hatchling had what everyone assumed was a psychotic break, bringing back an emaciated and close to death Feldspar. Slowly they were nursed back to health, and over time, the Founders once again rekindled their affection for one another.
Phew, sorry that's so long! They're very special to me. Thanks for the ask!
Infinity in their heart
'The call of the Outer Wilds was too loud for Feldspar to ignore it forever...'
To mark the 1 year anniversary of the Postcards Series, here's an illustration of a scene from one of the earliest installments: 'Passage' 😁
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Color version and excerpt below:
Prototyping
G: "I already know how this is going to end."
F: "Hey now, have some faith in our genius mechanic!"
S: "...I'm not a mechanic."
H: "You really think it will work?"
S: "Probably."
E: "Whelp. Fingers crossed we don't have a RUD on our hands. "
F: "What's a 'RUD'?"
PRESS: Peeyr Matches Students with Tutors in Same Age Range
Super stoked to share this article about Peeyr by one of our favorite outlets in Dallas.
Originally published by Dallas Innovates By Patrick Kobler • Apr 15, 2016
‘WORKING WITH A PEER TUTOR IS LIKE WORKING WITH A FRIEND’
Gautam Bhargava and Jed Rollins never finished high school, but the pair’s new education startup Peeyr is making affordable tutors accessible to students across Dallas-Fort Worth.
“I’m an 18-year-old high school dropout who runs an education startup,” Peeyr CEO Bhargava said.
Peeyr is an online marketplace where students can browse a platform of peer tutors in their area, select one based on reviews and academic information, choose a curated public location to meet, and schedule either one-time or recurring sessions. All of Peeyr’s tutors are in high-school, allowing its users to find and work with tutors who are their own age.
“Working with someone that’s been in your shoes creates an environment of trust and transparency,” said Rollins, Peeyr chief product officer and brand designer. “It’s hard to truly connect with someone who is so distanced from the ever-evolving curriculum and social trends. Working with a peer tutor is like working with a friend, rather than working with a stranger.”
Peeyr tutors are vetted thoroughly Peeyr’s tutors undergo a vigorous vetting process that includes academic verification, an interview, an orientation, and continuous training sessions.
“We only accept passionate tutors who are good at communicating what they know, not just tutors who are academic,” Bhargava said.
“We only accept passionate tutors who are good at communicating what they know, not just tutors who are academic.” – Gautam Bhargava
A major reason many students lack access to the learning resources that they need outside of the classroom is cost. Peeyr is a solution to this problem, offering peer tutors for $25 an hour, one-third the cost of competing online tutor marketplaces such as Wyzant, and half the cost of companies such as Sylvan and Kumon.
“Current tutoring marketplaces just aren’t geared towards everybody. They focus on students from higher-income socioeconomic backgrounds,” Bhargava said. “It was a problem that I became deeply passionate about. So passionate that I dropped out to fix it.”
Problems with the education system He said his journey to fix what he saw as problems with today’s education systems began three years ago when he met Rollins.
“I had one goal after school and that was starting a company, something I was told could only be done with an MBA [Master of Business Administration],” Bhargava said. “That opinion changed when I got introduced to Jed, a teenage prodigy who had dropped out [of high school] to travel the world doing photography and design.”
The two instantly connected over their passion for entrepreneurship, and not long after they launched Ankorhem, an integrated design agency.
“[It] taught us a lot about business, teams, and products, and allowed me to hone my design sensibilities.” – Jed Rollins
“[It] taught us a lot about business, teams, and products, and allowed me to hone my design sensibilities,” said Rollins, who left high school his sophomore year to work on a national campaign, and then began to take on major clients as a designer. “We ended up working together on a few other projects.”
One of those projects was SATUS, a three-week program for teenage entrepreneurs in DFW.
SATUS launched last summer with 15 teenage fellows who worked with leaders in the Dallas startup community to learn every aspect of starting a company.
“SATUS is an essential element in today’s education system, provided instead by a group of highly talented, coachable, and motivated young adults,” said Michael Sitarzewski, publisher of Launch DFW and CEO of Epic Playground.
SATUS program saw large increase in applicants Bhargava and Rollins saw a large increase in applicants for this year’s SATUS program. As a result, they are planning to introduce a more scalable model and introduce an online platform with all the resources and direction one may need to start a company.
“We’ve expanded our team and are partnering with some incredible organizations in Silicon Valley and Dallas to bring this together,” Bhargava said.
After the successes of Ankorhem and SATUS, Bhargava said he felt he had both the skills and confidence necessary to pursue his passion for entrepreneurship full time.
“After three years of entrepreneurial experience, I was confident in my ability to create a lasting solution that could really change education,” he said.
Peeyr tied for third place at Dallas Startup Weekend last July and then officially launched in September.
Rollins said, “We both had problems with the education system that we had left behind, and we knew that we had the tools to help change it for students who couldn’t find a way out of the challenges they were facing in school.”
“It’s incredibly fulfilling to know that this is actually changing people’s lives.” -Gautam Bhargava
Since its launch, Peeyr has added a chief technology officer, an engineer, and an additional designer to its team. The ed tech company has already received several hundred applications from students across DFW interested in becoming peer tutors. They also recently launched a public beta that pre-booked 50 sessions from students interested in the service and Peeyr has seen roughly 25 users continuously book sessions every week.
“Every day, we see more and more students signing up who usually would skip tutoring because of the cost. It’s incredibly fulfilling to know that this is actually changing people’s lives,” Bhargava said.
Don’t fund young founders for being young founders
I’m a young founder. My cofounder a slightly younger founder. I’ve gleaned one resounding message from years of building companies—getting lucky a couple of times and failing more than a couple of times: you need help.
Oh but I know—you’re a hustler. hustlers don’t fucking ask for help, man.
Well being a young founder means that you have a unique perspective, you have unique energy, you have the blissful ignorance of usually not being screwed—or at least not big enough to ruin you, and yes—you have lots of unique skills.
This is more than enough to get famous. It happens all the time. Someone with no particular focus or raison d'être games the press and turns a quick buck. We all know the stories. They’re tempting in their overnight success.
The thing missing from this case is wisdom. You don’t have that. Even if you’ve been at it for years and the people who read your wikipedia bio tell you you have it, you do not have it yet. You’ll give advice to other people who are around your age, and you’ll sound utterly sage-like, but you’re not.
You need help.
This is where mentoring comes in. Both me and my partner have had mentors that shaped the way we operate, think, and handle the questions of building things today. The biggest thing my first mentor taught me is to be a learner and not a knower, but the fastest way to convince someone that they’ve got all their shit together often seems to be giving them money. When you blindly throw money at young founders because they’re young, you’re giving them a license to shove their head up their ass—especially in the startup culture that deifies valuations and the wave of press that comes when you raise a nice big juicy round. This isn’t what builds meaningful companies or meaningful people.
We need to look for the same thing in young founders that we look for in everyone else: A great idea, an unwavering commitment to a big goal, domain expertise, a dynamic and rapidly learning person (or team) with unique perspective, love for what they do, humility to know that they don’t always have the answers, and confidence to know that sometimes they do.
So to the young founder:
Find someone to learn from. Find someone who’s succeeded some and failed a lot. Learn to find balance in your life early. Learn when to doubt yourself and when to break down the walls and never take no for an answer. But don’t forget that success—especially when it comes young—can’t always be measured in money.
And to the person with the money:
Fund young founders. Fund the shit out of them—because they’re the ones that will change the world. Some of the most talented founders that we’ve met are younger than I am. But for the love of god, fund them responsibly.
Young Founders
Over a thousand years ago, the four greatest witches and wizards of the age shared a dream, to create a school where young people of the wizarding world could study and be trained in the magical arts they needed to become skilled, fully-trained wizards. These four great wizards each founded one of the Houses of the school that they worked together to form : Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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Young Founders / Godric Gryffindor
Bold Gryffindor, from wild moor.