How did an initial ambition to become a corporate consultant evolve into founding an electric vehicle company?

Early on, I followed a conventional path focused on high grades, engineering college, and chasing lucrative corporate consulting packages. However, a student entrepreneurship trip to Stanford exposed me to early-stage founders building real companies, which ignited my desire to build tangible hardware. That experience convinced me that building physical products in the energy sector offered far deeper purpose than comfortable corporate golden handcuffs.