Phil Kwok

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We're actually in the lending and borrowing ecosystem.

And so at the time, this was in the sort of mid 2010s, coming towards the end of the 2010s.

And all of the big things at the time were how can we build this sharing economy?

So we had startups like Airbnb, Uber, which were all really flying off.

We were at university, so I was doing my undergrad at Cambridge in the UK.

Dom was at UPenn at Wharton.

And the students, the sharing economy, there's nothing better than the sharing economy for students.

And so we built one of the first applications that actually allowed anybody to lend and borrow goods.

So it was very much a marketplace.

and scale that to many colleges.

It's very, very exciting.

Actually, the founding team that we put together, they've all gone on to build incredible things as well.

One of the first engineers at this startup actually went on to lead AI safety over at Anthropic.

And so it's been a crazy, wild journey just seeing what everybody was building at the time and then also building afterwards.

So yeah, really, really cool stuff.

Yeah, we do a lot of work together with blockchain clubs.

So yeah, all the ones that you mentioned, one of our biggest ones is Harvard as well.

And I think that what we've seen is that a lot of the talent has gone over to AI.

And I think we've seen that across the board.

A lot of the attention as well has been

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