Said Eshaghi left Iran as a teenager and crossed a mountain range on foot. He carried fake passports through nearly a year of waiting in Turkey, doing illegal electrical work to pass the time while his family hoped a Scandinavian country would take them in. He eventually landed in Sweden. The survival instinct that carried him through all of it became the engine for everything he built afterward.
The harder part of his story is what that instinct did once the danger was gone. The same drive that keeps you alive when you have nothing does not switch off when you finally have something to lose, and Said is candid about how close his own success came to costing him the things it was supposed to protect. We talk about what it takes to notice when the wiring that once saved you has quietly started working against you.