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…I assume that the love of computers and knowing what you wanted to do, getting out of the Kenny G phase, that's what brought you to MIT. The Kenny G phase was a good one to escape. I remember I really wanted to go to MIT. I somehow figured out that that was the best school you can go to if you wanted to be a computer scientist. I had no idea that Stanford even existed. If I'd known that and that was in the heart of Silicon Valley, I probably would’ve tried to go there. I also didn't know that it was even feasible to just not go to college. If I’d known that I could do that, I probably would’ve just done that and try to start some stuff. I remember talking to my mom and asking how do you get into MIT? She’s like, get good grades, and study, and apply and hopefully they let you in. I'm like, what if they don't? She’s like, you just go somewhere else. I remember thinking how frightening that was. I got one shot to do the thing that I wanted to do. If I got rejected then I would just be done, a lot of ways that was a much scarier thing than anything, starting companies that have the risk of failure. You can start a company a million times. If it fails like, there's no, alright, that's it. You have to go somewhere else now. You can just keep doing it over and over again. How many companies have you started now?…

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