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Gaurav Misra

05/02/25

@ EO

I dropped out of my PhD program in machine learning to join a startup, which was a high-risk decision that ultimately paid off.

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The App We Almost Deleted-Now a $500M Success | Gaurav Misra, Captions

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The App We Almost Deleted-Now a $500M Success | Gaurav Misra, Captions

05/02/25

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Guillermo Rauch

06/03/25

@ Accel

I dropped out of high school to begin my journey as a software engineer after being offered a job at a startup in Switzerland.

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Tikhon Bernstam

09/09/17

@ Y Combinator

I applied to Y Combinator on a long shot, not expecting to get in, but after interviewing in Palo Alto, I was accepted and dropped out of graduate school to pursue my startup.

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Nate Blecharczyk

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

After quitting my corporate job due to lack of learning, I joined a startup where I learned valuable lessons about what not to do in business.

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Dan Siroker

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

I decided to stop working on my startup and joined Google to learn skills that would help me succeed as an entrepreneur.

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Andrew Mason

10/15/14

@ Y Combinator

I received a million dollars to drop out of grad school and work on 'The Point', despite having no prior experience in starting a tech company.

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Sam Altman

02/24/18

@ Y Combinator

I fell into entrepreneurship accidentally; I went to college to be a computer programmer, but after the dot-com bubble burst, startups weren't on anyone's mind.

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Steve Jobs

03/08/08

@ Stanford

I decided to drop out of college and trust that it would all work out OK, which turned out to be one of the best decisions I ever made.

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Dan Siroker

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

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

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Alexandr Wang

11/14/23

@ Accel

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.