Hi, I’m Zach.
I built this for
my kids.

I’m a two-time founder. I’ve raised millions in venture capital and grown companies to millions in revenue. I know how to take an idea and turn it into something real — that part I’ve got.

But the title I think about most is dad. I’m raising five kids. Two are neurodivergent. One battles anxiety that most days, most people never see. And like nearly every kid today, all of them feel the constant pull of a screen.

I watched hours vanish into watching other people play Minecraft. Endless feeds. Stream after stream. Bright, loud, and leaving nothing behind. I didn’t want to just take the screens away — that’s a losing battle, and honestly, it misses the point.

Because here’s what I believe: AI is the now and the future.The kids who learn to build with it — who use these tools to make things, start things, and earn from things — are going to have an enormous head start. I didn’t want my children consuming that future. I wanted them building it.

So I built RealQuest: a place where the same screen that used to drain them now hands them a business, a website, their first customer, and their first real dollar. Where the dopamine of a game points at something that actually compounds. Designed from day one to be ND-friendly — short steps, instant wins, no shame, no due dates — because I needed it to work for my kids, not just the easy ones.

If you’re a parent who’s tired of fighting the screen and wishes it could point somewhere good — I get it. I live it. RealQuest is my answer, and I’m building it in the open, for every kid who deserves to find out what they’re capable of.