India, April 6 -- A founder who quit his tech startup and moved to the mountains to become a lumberjack says he spent years not looking at a computer - until AI brought him back to the world of tech.

Ryan Courtnage is the 51-year-old Canadian co-founder of the donation-management platform Benevity. In 2020, he exited the company and bought 22 acres of land in the mountains.

Today, Courtnage is based in Creston, British Columbia, from where he spoke to Business Insider about his move from tech to the world of diesel engines and hydraulics.

After years of working in tech and building Benevity, Courtnage began to experience a sense of ennui. He said that instead of building something meaningful, he began to feel like he was spending all h...