The CEO Title at 18

When I started calling myself the CEO of Quill Labs, I half-expected someone to pull me aside and tell me I needed to earn that title first. Nobody did. What I got instead were questions — good ones. What does Quill Labs do? What are you building? Where is this going?

I started the company because I kept building things that didn't have a home. KwizHub was a product. Chorus was a product. I needed something to put them under — a name that said: these aren't side projects, they're deliberate. Quill Labs became that container.

The title isn't a vanity thing. It's a commitment device. When you say you're the CEO of something, you start making decisions differently. You think about sustainability, not just functionality. You think about what the company represents, not just what the product does. It changed how I work.

I'm 18. I don't have investors or a team of twenty. But I have two live products, real users, and a clear sense of what I'm trying to build. I think that counts. And if it doesn't yet, I'll make it count.

The work is the credential. I'm focused on the work.