Alexandr (Alex) Wang
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The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
So I'll say the few years before that.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
So I dropped out of high school, actually.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
Oh, you dropped out of high school?
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
Yeah, I dropped out of high school.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
Was it challenging enough for you?
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
I dropped out a year early to go work at Quora, at the tech company.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
I think a lot of people have run into Quora.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
It's like the question and answer website.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
But I went to go work at a tech company for a year.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
And then after a year of that, I decided, OK, it's time to go to college.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
So I went to MIT.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
It was maybe not quite that early.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
But yeah, by 16, 17, yeah, I was more competent by that point.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
So, well, at that point, that was like early, early AI.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
It wasn't even called AI yet.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI
It was called machine learning.