Yup and Coming

Leaving college early, finding a career niche between engineering and product, turning down the offer to join management at a unicorn startup, and balancing impact against aesthetics. Jeffrey is currently tinkering in and around the passion economy.

Growing into a top-tier mathlete, jumping from trading to tech, building a multi-billion dollar business out of college, and tasting the worms while fishing. @LM_Braswell is an investor at Founders Fund and formerly the founding product manager at Scale AI.

Building a solar car and nearly dying in it, talking with customers to discover your startup won't work, and being orphaned at age 7. Wendy is a mechanical engineer at Treau on a COVID gap year from MIT.

Casting aside the allure of fame and fortune, going down the rabbit hole of meditation, eating a tarantula on Survivor, and looking at death differently. Reiman is a former derivatives trader and reality TV star who hosts the podcast Redeeming Disorder.

Playing to your strengths, fighting the fear of change, hustling to break into tech, and hardcore hiking through the Rocky Mountains. Nancy is an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School who has worked in product management at Google, LinkedIn, and Cloudflare.

Looking beyond Tennessee, peer counseling past midnight, poop gene sequencing sorcery, and climbing the academic totem pole as a woman scientist. Joyce is an MD-PhD student at Harvard / MIT.

Badminton from the playground to the PanAms, conquering Caribbean Hogwarts as a first-generation college student, and walking in Einstein's minimalist shoes. Brad is a PhD candidate at Princeton University studying high energy particle physics.

Professional fantasy sports, finishing high school at 16 to work full-time as a software engineer, persevering in the face of flames, and learning like a machine. Tiger is co-founder and CTO of Welcome, a virtual events platform born from YC's COVID batch. See tigerthinks.com for contact info.

Exploring and exploiting internships, dangers of the digital Sabbath, getting hit by a bus, and coming to grips with reality. Drew is co-founder and CTO/COO of Schoolhouse.World, a free peer-to-peer tutoring platform led by Sal Khan of Khan Academy.

Growing up in northern Virginia, cleaning toilets at Harvard, ignoring your friends to work at the world's largest beer company, and caffeinated conversations with lawyers. James is a product manager at Jenzy and co-host of this podcast!