Ten years ago when our leaving cert results came out. Many of my classmates went into school to get their results, or eagerly looked up their results online. I did not do either. I was not concerned. At that stage, I had renounced any care I had for the education system and figured, the result didn’t matter.
What mattered was if I got the course I applied for. I was working on a clothing company called TheActiveCloud with my friend Ben at the time, a dyslexic artist who had dropped out by then.
My mum was away but she made sure to travel back home to make sure she was home for results. When she came home she asked me what I got and I told her I hadn’t checked.
So she called up the school and got my results. I got 265 points. I failed math and history. A cultural death sentence that meant that you were destined for failure.
Last year, I founded the first thinking infrastructure company.
It is called TheActiveCloud.
Jesse Ojuka 
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