Kabir Nagrecha is the single smartest person I’ve ever met. After starting college at 13, he graduated from UCSD with a CS degree at 17, earned his PhD there at 20 (his advisor described him as “the strongest research student I have ever advised/mentored in my career”), and spent a few months as a researcher at Meta before founding Tessera. In the 18 months since, he’s closed multimillion-dollar contracts with enterprise CIOs and recruited a team of more than 30 people (including six people from Netflix, where he was an intern). They say you should bet on slope instead of y-intercept, and both Kabir and Tessera’s slope have been one of one. Delighted to be working with him and his team to disrupt the largest market in software - if you’d like to work with him as well, he and Tessera are hiring quickly.