alexandr wang spent his 19th birthday as an MIT freshman on a winter internship at hudson river trading. around the table:
jeff yan, who went on to start hyperliquid (~$20B)
scott wu, who went on to start cognition ($48B)
jesse zhang, who went on to start decagon ($4.5B)
and wang, who started scale AI, got $14.3B from meta for 49% of it, and now runs meta's superintelligence lab.
when HRT's founder told him they were starting to do private investments: "just invest into the interns. all the interns get seed checks."
another wonderful episode from David Senra.