Karim Atiyeh
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So I ended up looking into that program and applying and coming a year and a half before college in 2006 to MIT for the Research Science Institute, which was a very transformative experience.
It was my first time in the US by myself for an extended period of time.
I had come as a tourist with my parents, but I think I'd come to Disneyland once.
RSI was dead.
I was on my own with another 60, 70 or so students, all brilliant, incredibly talented.
And even before coming for the program, we had to pick what our research subject or topic would be.
And I had picked computer science at the time, thinking that, great, I'm going to learn a lot more about it.
And it turns out that the expectation was that I would do computer science research and not learn about computer science.
That's where I was essentially put under, I guess, a lot of stress.
Like, great, I not only need to do some research, but I also need to teach myself a lot more in a very, very short period of time.
It was a fascinating experience where I ended up working at this small startup off of Kendall subway stop in Boston, the Kendall T stop called Virage.
And at the time, what Virage was doing was buying lots of video news feeds from all over the country.
So they'd buy like the news feeds of the local ABC station in small town in Texas.
all over the u.s so they'd buy all those tv news feeds convert the speech to text and then classify the text using markov chains and a lot of techniques that we're using are essentially like the ancestors of what llms rely on right it's a lot of the best technology available for doing natural language processing at the time and my
research project involved training these models that they were using a lot more efficiently than they were so very interesting at the time the technology was very nascent but it was a very cool experience and i guess the best part about it all is the friends i've made along the way some of my best friends to this day i've met through rsi it was a very fun experience
Yeah, of course.
Well, Paribus was an interesting one.
So I started Paribus with Eric, so same co-founder as Ramp, obviously.
Eric and I at the time were both fresh college graduates in New York, working at our first jobs, both incredibly busy at work.
We were buying a lot of our supplies on Amazon online, and we were essentially doing a lot of online shopping.
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