Bergen Merey
Co-Founder @ Throxy (opens in a new tab), leading operations and product.
I started my first business at 14—a gaming community that grew to 10,000 members. That early taste of building something from nothing stuck with me. Studied business at university, then went into consulting after graduating. Spent a year making slides and decks for clients, which taught me a lot about how businesses work, but I kept thinking about the things I was recommending versus the things I actually wanted to build.
Eventually I left to start Throxy (opens in a new tab), where we're building AI agents that handle repetitive work in sales. The idea is to flip "Software-as-a-Service" into Service-as-a-Software—let the agents do the tedious stuff so humans can focus on thinking, relationships, and solving actual problems.
I'm self-taught technically. No formal computer science background—just curiosity, time, and a lot of trial and error. These days I'm working through maths and CS fundamentals in my spare time. Not because I have to, but because understanding how things work from first principles is useful and interesting.
Currently reading The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch. It's about how knowledge is created and why some explanations are better than others. The kind of book that changes how you think about problems without trying to.
I spend a lot of time thinking about leverage, long-term games, and optimising for learning over outcomes. My rough philosophy: be patient, play positive-sum games, seek truth, think from first principles, do hard things, stay healthy. Go to bed wiser than you woke up.
These days I structure my inputs across five areas—health, wealth, relationships, learning, spirituality—not as goals, but as lenses to check what I'm actually doing versus what I say I value.
Outside of work, I'm usually kickboxing, playing tennis or golf, mixing tracks as a DJ, or just talking to random people. I'm convinced most interesting things happen through serendipity, not planning.
Some things I believe:
- Curiosity beats grinding
- You can't outwork bad decision-making, just like you can't outtrain a bad diet
- Optimisation leads to mediocre outcomes; obsession leads to exponential ones
- The best advice is meta advice—frameworks for thinking, not prescriptive answers
- Macro-hedonism is a trap, micro-hedonism is freedom
- Be a net producer, not a net consumer
Your existence—your specific combination of genes, experiences, decisions, thoughts—has a probability greater than the number of atoms in the universe. That's your power. You just have to believe in it and use it.
This site is where I write about things I'm thinking about, building, or learning. Mostly for me, but public if it's useful to someone else.
Life motto: Play long-term games, do hard things, seek truth, stay curious.
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