E34: What My Obsession With Games as a Kid Did for Me Later

In Episode 34, Avram Gonzales reflects on how an unlikely mix of video games and science experiments quietly shaped his mindset as an entrepreneur.

It starts in seventh grade with a simple school project: building a pressurized water rocket that could stay in the air as long as possible. While others focused on parachutes, Avram and his partner obsessed over small design tweaks—adding length, adjusting weight, and experimenting again and again until they discovered a counterintuitive solution that outperformed everyone else.

That same mindset showed up everywhere else. Endless repetitions in video games taught Avram patience, iteration, and resilience. You fail, you restart, you learn, and you try again—until you master the level.

In this episode, Avram connects those early experiences to how he approaches business today: releasing ideas before they’re perfect, learning from what doesn’t work, and treating failure as data instead of defeat. Entrepreneurship, he explains, is a lot like a game—you get multiple tries, you level up over time, and progress comes from repetition.

A thoughtful story about experimentation, persistence, and how childhood curiosities can turn into lifelong advantages when you know how to use them.