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GM! what is a pivotal moment that changed the trajectory of your life?

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First experience with ayahuasca

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Probably moving to America in 2008. There were many great people along the way that catalyzed my growth. Meeting Niall Ferguson in 2011 or Elon Musk in 2013 come to mind.

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I messaged or cold emailed hundreds of founders on Twitter to find a part time job to save up for grad school and leave Pakistan. One of them ended up offering a job and sponsor to Toronto. Got rejected from all grad schools. Life works in mysterious ways.

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Learned about startups and dropped out of medical school. Moved from hometown a year ago

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I wasn’t gonna respond to this because I don’t need the attention really, but my 24 year old brother died when I was 18 years old, my senior year of high school in 2006. My life has been entirely different than I ever expected since then..

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heard of and looked into Carol Dweck’s work on growth mindset https://i.imgur.com/T8SlrrE.jpg

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quit a cushy tech sales job at the height of the pandemic to cofound a startup. it didn't reach escape velocity, we weren't accepted into any major accelerators but learnt much more in 10 months than i would have in 5 years on prev trajectory.

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Gap year after first year of college.

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at 19 i was a fashion intern, and had a fetch quest to deliver something to marissa mayer. she was having a private showing of the entire Oscar de la rental collection and buying anything she wanted off the models. I quit fashion and got serious about coding + creating.

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hitting growth spurt earlier than peers. had advantage in youth sports, leading to more opportunities in high school sports, getting me into a college that I probably wouldn't have (if based purely on academic credentials at the time) whole milk > 1%

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https://i.imgur.com/IGL4U5d.jpg

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I would say I still haven’t had a pivotal moment. The things who look almost like it would be my end of high school paper I wrote about crypto and his impact on the world with my 2 other friends. Since 2017 crypto is in my life

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Varun Srinivasan

https://i.imgur.com/kLhe26t.png

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Early testflight invite to clubhouse - Before then, didn't really know much about startups, was gonna intern at oil company supply chain. After, met ambitious founders/builders, convos that made me realize what I wanted to pursue, even met my cofounders in my eventual startup.

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- moving to the bay area - working at coinbase

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Left a cushy job at a prestigious hedge fund to go play with Ethereum at ConsenSys.

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2016: Realizing I could actually leverage my Cultural Anthropology degree, and combine it with my love of digital design (been designing since I was 7 or 8) to create products as a career 🙌 …and proving my parents wrong, being the black sheep of the family without a PhD

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Alex Loukissas 🍉

Moved to CA for grad school, which helped me get to a SV job, then to my first startup job & exit. Been learning ever since.

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Dropping out of university to start my first venture.

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