I started investing at a young age, motivated by my parents' encouragement and the opportunity to build a portfolio on Yahoo Finance during the dot-com boom.

I founded my first company in middle school and started inDinero from my UC Berkeley dorm room while studying computer science.

I dropped out of Harvard to pursue my passion for computing, inspired by the exponential improvements in technology and the potential for personal computers.

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.

When I pitched the idea of building a Bloomberg for startup investors, it sounded ridiculous, but the investors ended up investing on the spot.

I started my company at 19 years old and never went to college because I believed that proving my capabilities through action was more valuable than obtaining a degree.

Astranis built their prototype satellite in an apartment, demonstrating that fundamental elements can be simple and flexible when creating a demo rather than a production application.

Having my own laptop with high-speed internet in college was transformative, allowing me to access a wealth of information and fall in love with the internet.

At 19 years old, I dropped out of MIT to launch Scale, driven by the understanding that progress in AI relies on data availability, not just algorithms.