Jonny and I met in high school, me on guitar, him rapping over it, entertaining friends in the hallways and at basement parties. Around then I started a t-shirt line called Kill the Pilot, built on a philosophy I'd landed on: fly your own plane, kill the pilot. After college, we started The Pilot Kids to combine everything we'd learned, went all in instead of taking jobs, and poured everything we had into one song and one video, made entirely ourselves. That video found its way to Grammy-winning producer Tricky Stewart, who called me directly and flew us out to sign a deal. What followed reached fans all over the world, a channel still sitting at 70,000 subscribers today, proof that you can fly your own plane and build something of your own.