He has stated that his interest in technology started during a period of long social isolation while living in Spokane and being uninterested in sports like the rest of his classmates.

[6] He was introduced to computer programming after moving to Redmond, Washington, when he stumbled on a book offering to teach the creation of a slot machine in Visual Basic.

[2] In early 2012, he dropped out of university to create a startup focused on live video streaming, and in mid-2012 he moved to East Palo Alto, California to attend Y Combinator for it.

[22][23] Menezes has become known for eating KitKat candy bars without splitting them into pieces in all his videos[24][25] and many students have created satirical games as a result.

He has said he believes that creativity and excitement are important to motivate students, and that schools have ignored this when teaching STEM disciplines, resulting in inequity in the technology industry.