I once created a honeypot website to catch students cheating on math problems, which revealed that 30% of my class had attempted to find solutions online.

The macro issue arose when I needed an insurance license to build a prototype for Y Combinator, leading to a misunderstanding about the licensing exam requirements.

I got bored with my PhD research on measuring programming skills because some findings were uncomfortable for universities, revealing that students who scored well on exams might not actually understand programming.

The first project I built in college was called CourseMatch, which helped students see what classes their peers were taking, but I lost it when my laptop fried.

I built Interview Coder, a tool for software engineering technical interviews, after being expelled from Columbia University.

I publicly demonstrated using Interview Coder during an Amazon interview, highlighting how easy it is to hack the interview process.

I built a study tool for my class that crowdsourced information, which ended up helping my classmates perform better on the final exam.

Interview Coder is designed to help users cheat on technical interviews, and it has generated nearly $5 million in annual recurring revenue.

I wasted $50,000 on customizing employment agreements with a first-year lawyer who was learning on the job, which was not a good use of funds.