I would be a billionaire tech founder by now if I wasn't held back every step of my career. My intellectual lessers have been given everything while I scrape and claw for morsels of success in this godforsaken industry. It starts with college admissions. Stanford? Nope. I kept my head held high while I suffered the quiet indignity that is having no other option than to enroll at Berkeley. I didn't get the Jane Street internship, either. Hmmm, ok. So I twiddled my thumbs at Two Sigma for a summer. Tried to drop out like my rivals at real universities but YC wanted to fund AI for carwashes instead. No money for me. So, I embarrassingly walked at my graduation. Did I get the new grad role at OpenAI, the consolation prize for all my trials and tribulations? Heavens no. Instead I ended up at [redacted], a company with such low prestige that I told my friends I was taking a gap year post grad to backpack Europe instead of admitting the truth of my employment. My inferiors who got into Stanford or Harvard? All the career success you could ask for and more. These guys couldn’t hold my fucking jockstrap in a Codeforces contest and are now raking in tens of millions from frontier labs and founding billion dollar companies. I'm not bitter about it, though. It's just an observation I think is interesting.