Manufacturing
In 2010, a young Igor Marinelli sat before his Windows 98 computer, already showing signs of what would later shape his future. Unlike his peers who found joy in Atari or PlayStation games, Marinelli discovered his passion in building things. "I got extremely addicted to building stuff, for better or worse. I can never engage in video games of any kind. I remember going to a friend's house trying to play Atari or PlayStation 1 and in just 15 minutes, and getting... bored, annoyed. Good for me because then I was just back to the computer, kind of more introspective, and just learning stuff," Marinelli recalls.
This early inclination toward creation led to an incident that would shape his understanding of purpose. At 13, Marinelli hacked his school's entire system, prompting a meeting between the school director and his father. "The school director called my father and said, 'Mister Marinelli, we have a problem here. Your son just hacked our entire school system.' And then my father said, 'Wait a minute, did my 13-year-old boy hack your entire school system?' Yep, you probably need to buy a better one."
While his father appeared supportive in the moment, the car ride home brought a valuable lesson. "Son, when you stop wasting your time doing useless stuff and start applying it for a good reason, the geniuses I know have a very specific purpose behind them. Go have fun," his father advised. This moment planted the seeds for what would eventually become Tractian, though the path there wasn't immediate.
