Ajay Kulkarni
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, I think I've tried to always follow the thing that kind of tugs my heartstrings.
To be like, hey, like, I don't know why, but this is interesting.
And really to listen to that.
That's why I ended up at MIT.
My high school guidance counselor tried to dissuade me from going.
And I was like, nah, I'm going to go.
I'm going to go.
It was hard, but it was great.
I graduated during the dot-com collapse.
So at that point, tech was not hiring, which just sounds crazy at this point.
Yeah.
And I ended up on Wall Street as a bond analyst.
But very quickly after a couple of years, I ended up back in Palo Alto working for a startup.
And I've been working at a startup since.
What year was that?
Roughly.
Back to Palo Alto.
Oh, back to Palo Alto.
2004.
So anyways, I know.