Mosquitoes Be Gone LLC really started when I was 15 years old and I had gone on a trip to India with my family.

In particular, there's this one image that really stands out to me. I saw a long line of people outside of a clinic waiting to get treatment for mosquito-transmitted diseases. When I returned home with these memories, I remember thinking that there is a need for both access to preventative care from mosquito-transmitted diseases, and that was affordable and safe. As I did some research, I was surprised to learn that 250 million people were affected by malaria alone, the majority of these people being in developing countries. So that was my inspiration. 

In high school, I was in a research class and they asked,  “what's a problem or a question that you have that you want to address with your work?”

I thought what if I could better understand why certain people are more attractive to mosquitoes, and then come up with a repellent that neutralizes those attractive components? That was my driving motivation behind this entire journey that has now been over 10 years.