Millionaire at 23 - AMA

[OBEler]

What's your second company doing? And what was your first one.

Also, was Harvard education worth it? 

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16 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Get high enough and you stop seeing your own IQ as a limitation and you care about it less.

The reason I care less is slightly different. I do believe the space of minds is very high-dimensional and comparable IQ points do not translate in terms of which submanifolds you can access from that space. Consider a crude example of Terence Tao v., Grothendieck.

The first is an analytic prodigy and you see this in the type of math he is prolific in - harmonic and real analysis. When he was young and tested by specialists, they remarked he was willing to overlook faster and more intuitive spatial solutions for the sake of bashing it out analytically. Grothendieck was very famously the opposite - analytically/procedurally slow (Grothendieck prime 57) but visually and intuitively an absolute freak. 

That said, I also don't fully discard IQ as a marker. I don't believe it is normally distributed (\sim \mathcal{N}(100, \sigma)), but rather Heavy-Tailed.  My Abstract Algebra professor was Noam Elikies, who by all accounts is most likely with an IQ above a 200. And you can fucking tell - he feels like an actual alien. 

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11 hours ago, OBEler said:

What's your second company doing? And what was your first one.

First one was a cybersecurity company, providing IDP and passwordless MFA for enterprise, built on top of a novel algorithm made by me. 

My second company is building novel observability and steering tools for LLMs and agents. 

11 hours ago, OBEler said:

Also, was Harvard education worth it? 

Without a shadow of a doubt. One of the most impactful experiences in my life.

When it comes to academic disciplines, such as mathematics, you should think of Harvard like Hogwarts. They don't hold your hand but drop you in the deep waters. The intensity of some of my math classes made me hallucinate sober akin to a 150ug LSD trip. 

When it comes to people, about half are dumbwits who got in because of varsity sports, family donation or legacy (i.e a relative went there before them). But among the rest there are some special individuals. 

The name alone has opened doors I otherwise could not have walked through.