I built a website called Course Match to help students at Harvard connect based on the courses they were taking, which highlighted people's desire to understand their peers.

In college, I wanted to create products that connected me with the community around me, which led to the realization that I needed to build software that others would use too.

I started my first company out of my dorm room at Stanford, aiming to help students get jobs at banks and consulting firms, but it ultimately didn't work out because no one was using LinkedIn at the time.

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

My first startup with a friend was called Carrot Sticks, an online math game for kids that aimed to make learning math fun and social.

I initially built Facebook for myself as a college student, but I quickly realized its potential to serve a broader audience beyond just my university.

My entrepreneurial journey began in college when I researched machine learning and sentiment classification, aiming to apply it to the stock market.

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

My first company was called Accolade, which focused on online SAT prep, but we were rejected by Y Combinator because my co-founder and I were part-time and had other commitments.