Alexandr (Alex) Wang

That was like the more popular term.

And it was about training different algorithms that would, you know, re-rank content.

It was just like all the like...

um, all the algorithms for like these social media style, um, style things.

And it's like, okay, what algorithm creates the most engagement or what algorithm like gets people, you know, the most hooked on, on these feeds.

That's what I, that's what I was working on back then.

Um, and so, uh, so I went, so I, I worked, I worked for a bit and then I went to MIT and, um, what do you, what do you, sorry to interrupt.

Or... I think...

I think something that I internalized pretty early on was that focus was really, really critical.

And so I didn't think necessarily... I mean, like...

I think a lot of people are really smart and I don't know if necessarily I'm like way smarter fundamentally than a lot of these other people but I was like hyper focused on math as a kid and then hyper focused on physics and then in high school I was hyper focused on programming and then um and so if you if you're like hyper focused

You're just like you like really invest the time and the effort You can make really really fast progress.

Mm-hmm.

So one of the things that I always like I I've believed in for a long time is that if you if you Overdo things like you like really like Invest lots of time lots of effort you go the extra mile you go the extra 10 miles and you're like constantly overdoing things then you will

improve faster than anybody else by many times.

And a lot of other people, maybe they're just not going the extra mile or maybe they're just not as focused or, you know, they're like meandering a bit more.

And so that's really like, I definitely like,

For me, I think a lot of what I attribute being able to accomplish so much to is really about focus and overdoing it, going the extra mile.

That's what I think it boils down to.

Um, you know, they, my parents, I think still probably really want me to get a PhD and, and do scientific research.