Karu
Thompson
Navo
Lab
I started Navo Lab in December 2025, at 18, with no funding and no connections. It is now a profitable AI-first growth agency doing about $10K a month in recurring revenue, with a team of five running marketing for HVAC and home-services companies in Florida and Minnesota. The bet behind it: the trades are the most underpriced market in marketing, and AI lets a tiny team out-ship agencies ten times its size. I closed every client myself.
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I have played violin most of my life. In June 2026 I toured Australia and New Zealand with my orchestra, including a performance at the Sydney Opera House. The instrument is where I learned what building actually requires: repeating the same passage two hundred times, performing when it counts, and hearing the difference between almost right and right. I still play seriously, and I intend to keep it that way.
Self-Taught
versus
Stanford
I skipped college to build companies, and this is the public experiment: I document what I build, earn, and learn each season, measured in the open against the four-year path I turned down. Real numbers, published as they happen. College might have been the right call. That is exactly why it's worth measuring.
Essays from inside a real company run by a teenager: the sales calls, the pricing mistakes, what clients actually pay for, and the running ledger of the whole experiment. New posts on Substack most weeks.
Find me in the audience.
© 2026 Karu Thompson — subject to change