Team

The Problem and Inspiration

Julia was only fifteen when she came up with the idea to give everyone the power to become an author. She had spent several years traveling with her family across Europe and Asia. During her travels, she noticed teenagers everywhere doing the same thing: staring at their phones. No matter the city, language, or culture, social media seemed to consume their attention. Julia felt that real teenage interaction had substantially reduced. She remembered seeing groups of friends sitting together without actually talking. Conversations were replaced by scrolling, liking, and posting. Julia wondered what happened to stories, imagination, and curiosity. She realized her generation wasn’t lacking intelligence, but inspiration. They needed something meaningful to engage with.

The Idea and Vision

Later, in Singapore, Julia refined the idea further. She saw how different cultures valued stories but didn’t always have a place to share them. Julia wanted to build a platform that encouraged reading more and creating more. She called it MyBook because it centred on personal ownership and expression. MyBook would empower both teenagers and adults to become authors. It would guide them to turn memories into meaningful narratives. Users could write about love, loss, identity, or joy. They could tell stories that mattered to them and others.

Purpose and Impact

Julia believed stories could reconnect people in ways social media could never do. Social Media is to drain the intellect, MyBook is to build the intellect. She wanted her generation to feel seen, heard, and understood. MyBook became her way of reviving creativity, conversation, and community. And though she was young, Julia believed she could change the way people relate to each other—one story at a time.