From Dorm Room to IPO: 5 University Spin-Off Success Stories
I was halfway through a late-night group project when I caught myself thinking: "What if this slides deck was actually a cap table?" The jump from half-finished coursework to a…
I was halfway through a late-night group project when I caught myself thinking: "What if this slides deck was actually a cap table?" The jump from half-finished coursework to a…
Last semester I watched two people in the same library row use ChatGPT in completely opposite ways. One was pasting the assignment prompt and asking for a full essay. The…
I was walking back from a late seminar, brain fried from a group project, when it hit me: some teams crumble at the first setback, and others somehow get sharper.…
Last semester I was sitting in a 9 a.m. lecture, half awake, watching someone plug a laptop into a wall socket that was powered by rooftop solar. I realized the…
Last semester I was sitting in a 300-person lecture, watching half the room secretly on Notion, YouTube, and ChatGPT instead of the slides. At some point I realized: the "classroom"…
I had this thought walking back from a late lab: if students have the least money, least experience, and least time, why do so many of the best startups come…
I remember watching a friend pitch at a campus startup competition and realizing something brutal: nobody cared about his 20-slide deck. They cared about the 2 minutes where he was…
At around 2 a.m. in the library, I realized the wildest thing: two people can be building almost the same startup, but their lives look completely different based on one…