Alexandr (Alex) Wang

And I looked around.

I was like, nobody's working on this problem.

You have plenty of guys working on building great algorithms.

You have plenty of people working on building the chips and the computational capacity and all that.

Nobody working on data.

So I was, you know, I was impatient.

You know, I was 19 years old.

I was kind of impatient.

I was like, well, if nobody's going to do it, I might as well do it.

Dropped out, started the company, and was off to the races.

That was part of the problem.

I was like...

I was trying to build it, and then I realized I didn't have anywhere near enough data, so it would always, like, fire incorrectly and always have false positives, false negatives, etc.

And then... And I realized, like... Then that was, like, the light bulb moment.

I was like, oh, shit, if I really want to make this, I need, like... Like...

like a million times more data than I have now.

And that's going to be true for like every AI thing that anyone ever wants to build.

And so that was kind of the genesis of the idea, really.

So you left MIT.

Left MIT.