His first public performance took place in early 2004 in Deko Café, a local comedy club in Bucharest, during an open mic night. Teo started considering doing stand-up in 2003, while working in retail. He has stated in interviews that he found it to be a waste of his time and regrets the time spent there. After graduating he attended the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies where he studied business management. He has said that competitive debating had a great influence on the way he came to approach writing and stand-up later in his life. While attending highschool, he played in a rock band, wrote articles for the school newspaper, and traveled Europe with the George Coșbuc Highschool debate team. The grandson of an airline pilot who occasionally flew Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu's official plane, he grew up in the Bucharest neighborhood of Titan.
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