Alex Bäcker is a Caltech Ph.D., Top 100 MIT Technology Alumnus, and co-founder of QLess (named one of the Best Places to Work in Los Angeles) and Drisit, as seen in TIME, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Nature, ABC, NBC…An inventor with 11 patents, he has won 11 Gold Stevies and was recognized as one of 40 under 40 and as IT Executive of the Year by the International Business Awards. Twice TEDx speaker, he was among the first to publish scientific studies on the role of sunlight and vitamin D in COVID-19.

Perhaps his top qualification to write this book, though, is he lives a remarkably happy life. He has waltzed in Vienna, danced the tango in Buenos Aires, kitesurfed off a Greek island, sailed for a week in the Seychelles, traveled to 73 countries, coached his son’s soccer team to win the largest AYSO region in the nation. He drove a Land Cruiser carrying tribal hitchhikers in remote rural Kenya, stargazed with Samburu tribesmen and climbed glaciers in Norway.  He gave a TED-X in Spanish in Argentina and one in English in Hong Kong. He has composed several songs. All this while helping raise three loving children who are already succeeding at the game of life.