Dieter Schoening

About

I grew up with early access to a computer learning Photoshop by 9 and then discovered Blender (3d design software) that led to me working with content creators in the millions of subscribers.

At 14 I started my own anime clothing brand, Minimaru, which scaled past $1.3M in revenue within a year and a half through viral marketing. By 17 I was burnt out and started learning to code, eventually building Serenidad with my best friend.

I took a gap year, moved to Vermont to work at Hack Club where I grew their Instagram to 100K followers and produced videos. Then spent 2 months in rural Japan building an anime storyboarding tool, before pivoting to hardware and building a drone as part of Nautilus, a 3-month residency in San Francisco.

Now I've left marketing and software behind to go deep into biology and neuroscience — working with brain iPSC at a stealth biotech startup to help map the human brain.