Alex Smereczniak

In San Francisco.

He's been at a bunch of amazing startups in the Valley.

um it's like i'll keep in touch with them here and there and like they've now known what's happening they saw me do i did after college with it and yeah you know they're really they're really happy to see that it's changed hands to seven student groups since so you're still so you tried the business off yeah we sold it when we graduated

Six different generations of students.

Wow.

There's been this element of like this really emotional piece for all of us of like, it changed my life.

My eyes got wide open to being an entrepreneur, running a business, failing.

Like where else in your life are you taught that, hey, there's a lot of learning and good in failure versus school.

So like A, A, A.

So I mean, so that we had that experience at a really young age and all of us felt some responsibility, like we need to give another group the same experience that we had.

Cause again, it materially changed the trajectory of our lives.

A thousand percent.

And I say that all the time.

That has nothing to do with the quality of the professors or the people.

They're amazing professors, ex-Wall Street guys teaching finance.

I mean, it was amazing, but nothing will replicate that hands-on, down and dirty, failing, iterating, moving quick, problem solving, someone calling out while you're in a class and you're like, shit, I need to staff this and figure this out.

Nothing replicates being in it.

A hundred percent.

And I tell people too, like you go to college to learn how to learn as well as the network and learning how to learn.

Forget what it is you're learning, but it teaches you all this independence and