Same. I started at 15 GBP / hr 13 years ago on peopleperhour, doing cheap jobs and building up trust. This slowly evolved into a network, enough experience to l

Same. I started at 15 GBP / hr 13 years ago on peopleperhour, doing cheap jobs and building up trust. This slowly evolved into a network, enough experience to launch my own startup, and now I've been CTO of two startups and I run my own consulting company, at 20-50x the rate I started at.