"I'm 19 years old, and people are trusting me with over a million dollars to build a company. At first, it seemed somewhat crazy, but I think this is a great opportunity. During the summer, I turned down an internship to spend two months living in a hacker house while building a startup with my college roommate and cofounder. I had no idea I wouldn't be returning to Harvard for my sophomore year."
"Having a cofounder is such a huge choice because you spend so much time together and have to make so many decisions together. My cofounder, Julia, and I were best friends, and we still are. Since raising the money, we've scaled and now run a team of six people. We are still figuring out our product and recently made a pivot into generative optimization, which is essentially search engine optimization, but for LLMs."
A 19-year-old startup cofounder left Harvard after raising over $1 million to build a company in San Francisco. The cofounder lived in a hacker house and turned down an internship to focus on the startup. The founder comes from an immigrant Chinese family that celebrated college admission but called leaving college insane. The team has scaled to six people and recently pivoted into generative optimization, described as search engine optimization for LLMs. The cofounders remain close friends, live together, and struggle to separate work from personal life. The founder intends to return to Harvard but did not want to miss this opportunity.
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