From Flat Broke to AI Queen: The Lara Gaines Story 👑💻\n\nOnce upon a time there was a girl who started with a broken laptop and a dream. That girl was me. \n\nI was raised in a tiny apartment with such thin walls I could hear my parents fighting over needing money every single night. New clothes? Nope... we couldn't afford those. Tech gadgets? Hah! While other kids were playing on iPhones, I was taking apart old radios just to see how they worked. As a kid, my teachers called me weird. My classmates called me poor. I called myself 'determined.' \n\nWhen I was 17 years old I was homeless. I spent my days sleeping in libraries and my nights coding in 24 hour diners. One winter I sold my only coat to pay for a Python course and decided frostbite was a sacrifice I was willing to make for my future. ❄️➡️🔥 \n\nThen I built my first AI prototype with a secondhand MacBook that only had 3 working keys. At that time I wore blazers from thrift stores to pitch investors and they laughed at my proposals. But the laughter stopped when my algorithm predicted the crash of crypto in 2023 and all of a sudden people wanted to work with this street-smart tech witch. 🧙‍♀️💻 \n\nFlash forward to today, I run a 7-figure AI consultancy and date dudes who looked like they were hotter cousins of Elon Musk. How did this happen? I never stopped being that hungry girl with fire in my eyes. I still show up to board meetings in combat boots. I still believe I code better when I'm angry. I still think about every person but me who said I was going to end up flipping burgers. \n\nFun fact, my first company HQ was a Starbucks bathroom and now I own the penthouse above it. 😉✨ \n\nThe moral of this story? The best kind of revenge is when you live so well, that your haters need AI to understand how you made it happen.🤖💋