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<div>I started Paragon because my work has always been about helping people build stronger communities.
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<div>Before tech, I was organizing in Yonkers. One of the biggest moments in my life was the Free School 19 campaign, where we fought to turn an abandoned school building into a community space. We lost by one vote, but that work helped lead to The PowerLab, a coworking and community space that gave people room to gather, create, organize, and build.
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<div>That experience shaped the way I see community.
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<div>I saw how powerful people can be when they have the right space, the right tools, and the right people around them. But I also saw the limits of physical space. A building can only hold so many people. A local group can only reach so far. And too many creators, students, teams, and community leaders are still trying to build using scattered tools that were never designed for them.
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<div>They post on one platform. Chat somewhere else. Manage events in another place. Share files somewhere else. Try to grow their community on platforms that reward attention, but do not help them actually build.
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<div>That problem became Paragon.
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<div>Paragon is a social and workspace platform for creators, students, teams, and community groups. It brings together the tools people need to connect, collaborate, organize, share updates, host conversations, build channels, manage communities, and grow their networks in one place.
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<div>Our goal is simple: help people turn attention into community, and community into something real.
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<div>We have already built a working product and tested it with early users. Now we are preparing for our next go-to-market push: launching in Westchester, expanding to more universities, onboarding more creators and community groups, and building the traction we need for a larger raise so Paragon can scale.
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<div>But right now, we are at a critical stage.
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<div>We need support to keep development moving, support the team, improve the product, reach more users, and give this next launch momentum.
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<div>This moment is also personal. After a hard conversation about stability and responsibility, I gave myself 30 days to go all in. I’m documenting that journey through Wolf Mode: 30 Days to Failure.
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<div>For 30 days, I’m showing the real founder journey behind Paragon: the product work, the team meetings, the investor calls, the pressure, the sacrifice, and the outcome.
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<div>If I can raise enough support to fund our next push, we keep building. If not, I’ll get a traditional job because stability comes before being a founder.
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<div>This fundraiser is for people who believe in the mission and want to help us keep moving.
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<div>Your support helps us continue building a platform for creators, students, teams, and community leaders who are trying to organize, collaborate, and grow something meaningful. It helps us give Paragon the honest push it deserves after years of work, sacrifice, and belief.
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<div>Any contribution, share, message, or word of encouragement helps. It reminds me that this work matters and that I’m not building alone.
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<div>If you believe in community, creators, young people, local leaders, or founders fighting to build something meaningful from the ground up, I’d be grateful for your support.
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<div>Thank you for being part of the journey.
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<div>Contributions are not investments and do not provide equity, ownership, repayment rights, or financial return. This fundraiser is simply a way to support the mission and the work behind Paragon.
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