I started building apps in high school. A cold email to a Stanford professor changed my life.

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Adrit Rao at the University of California, Berkeley, where he's a freshman.

Adrit Rao

Axiom Math's Carina Hong weighs in on the AI talent wars and the advantage of working at a neolab

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My daughters attended Harvard, Yale, and Stanford; they then became the CEOs of YouTube and 23andMe. Letting them fail helped them grow into leaders.

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Anne Wojcicki and Susan Wojcicki

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Meet the young AI startup founders raising millions in the race to build the next big thing

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Zhang and her team working out of her apartment.

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How a 24-year-old Stanford Ph.D. dropout lured some of Meta's brightest minds to join her AI math startup

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Carina Hong, wearing a green collar shirt and smiling indoors in front of a brick wall and some plants.
Axiom Math founder Carina Hong.

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Fei-Fei Li, the 'Godmother of AI' whose startup is now valued at north of $1 billion, got her start as a dry cleaner

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Fei-Fei Li, Google's chief AI scientist at the company's Next conference.

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I broke a big rule of college applications by writing about my mother. My love for her got me into Yale and Stanford.

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The author wrote about his mother in his college essays.

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Working from home made motherhood feasible for her. A Stanford study shows she's not alone.

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Stefi Markowicz credits being able to work from home for her decision to become a mother earlier in life than she had anticipated.

Stefi Markowicz

Brothers, 19 and 20, quit Stanford and graduated from Y Combinator with $4 million. Read their pitch deck.

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Shraman and Shreyas Kar.

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I'm a first-year medical student at Stanford. From working on cadavers to 12-hour lecture days, this is what a week in my life is like.

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The author is a med student at Stanford.

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