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“They didn’t want low-income housing or low-income people near their area,” Sadler said.

Sadler remembers neighbors protesting when families from the housing complex moved to StoneGate, an affordable housing complex in southwest Fort Worth, in the affluent Tanglewood area. Sadler spent the first 10 years of his life in the Ripley Arnold public housing complex in downtown Fort Worth before it was torn down to build the RadioShack headquarters, which eventually became the Tarrant County College Trinity River Campus. When he was younger, Sadler didn’t always feel welcomed in Fort Worth. “Unlike Silicon Valley, where there’s already like, this sort of like established ethos, and you’re not going to reshape it, Fort Worth felt like it’s at a time where it’s ready to be molded and shaped by different people that have different experiences,” Sadler said. He sees potential in Fort Worth after his experience in Silicon Valley. The company was acquired by Modern Health in 2021.Īfter stints in and out of Fort Worth, Sadler is back to develop a company called Nox. While in San Francisco, Sadler further developed his company, NewCraft. “And so that’s what kicked off my journey there.” “I thought I would have more freedom attacking the problem from more creative angles with less red tape,” he said.

If that student’s environment changed, Sadler thought, his life’s outcome would be different. One of his students was talented at math but was selling drugs at the corner store after school to financially support family members. His time teaching inspired his application to Y Combinator, a three-month accelerator program in San Francisco with alumni that founded high profile companies like Airbnb and DoorDash. “They’re closer to some of the best operators and innovators in the world.” “If you take the same persistence, determination, ability to overcome adversity and these sorts of attributes, they match,” Sadler said. He thought his students had more similarities to millionaire entrepreneurs like Elon Musk than staff members at the school. Cam Sadler developed his thesis for his life’s work while running a business and technology program at Dunbar High School: The bottom is closer to the top than the middle.