Jim Starcev bought his first house at twenty off the earnings of a Kansas City Star paper route. By the end of that run he had three trucks and eleven people delivering papers to nearly two thousand homes. That early stretch, along with a childhood east of Troost raised by a single mother who worked in a factory, shaped the work ethic he carried into financial services, into a bootstrapped tech company that grew to almost fifty employees, and eventually into his current role at KC Digital Drive.