Alexandr Wang
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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And it was just like, I felt like I was drinking from the fire hose pretty constantly during that time.
And I would definitely recommend, the two things that were really important.
One is, I think working at a company was really valuable.
Because I think from the outside in, you have no idea how companies work.
You have no idea what it looks like to actually build something.
You have no idea what it looks like to iterate on something.
You have no idea what it looks like for groups of people to make decisions.
And so I thought that was really important.
And then going to school at MIT was actually really important because it just gave me a lot of opportunity to explore what was interesting.
And so it was at MIT that I started training my first models and that I played around with TensorFlow, which had just come out that year at MIT and where I ultimately came up with the idea of scale.
And then after one year of MIT, I applied to YC.
you know, it felt like kind of like a miracle to get in at that time.
And YC was really critical to my entrepreneurial journey.
Like, I don't think, like, YC is this amazing blend of, you know, they're very supportive and they obviously want you to succeed, but they also give it to you very real and they tell you when you're being a dumbass, which I think is, you know, that's what we all need in life.
So...
Yeah, that was, I think, the story till then.
I was 19, started Scale, and the rest is history.
Yeah, so we wanted to build an AI agent, funnily enough, to help people get medical care.
And it was a great example of an idea that I think will ultimately exist.
I think we're even seeing it now.
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