Alexandr Wang
Alexandr Wang is CEO and co-founder of Scale AI. He is named the youngest self-made billionaire at the age of 25 by Forbes.[1] Wang owns an estimated 15% stake in Scale AI, which was valued at $7.3 billion in 2021.[2][3][4]
Early life and education
Wang's parents were physicists who worked on weapons projects at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.[5][1] He graduated from Los Alamos High School, and then proceeded to study Mathematics and Computer Science at MIT[6], which he later dropped out of, to attend the Y Combinator accelerator and work full time at Scale AI.[4]
Career
Wang worked as a software engineer for Addepar in 2014. He then became tech lead for Quora between 2014 to 2016, when he was 17 years old.[7] He worked as a algorithm developer at Hudson River Trading for less than a year after that. He then co-founded Scale AI in June 2016 during his Summer break at MIT with Lucy Guo,[8] who he met during his work at Quora.[1][9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Horton, Cole. "The New Youngest Self-Made Billionaire In The World Is A 25-Year-Old College Dropout". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
- ↑ "Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang will join us at TC Sessions: Mobility on June 9". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ Tiwari, Toshi. "Alexandr Wang, A 25-Year-Old College Dropout, Is The New Youngest Self-Made Billionaire In The World". www.india.com. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Alexandr Wang". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ↑ E1005 ScaleAI CEO Alexandr Wang: future of self-driving, China’s ML advantages, next major AI trends, retrieved 2022-05-29
- ↑ "Who is Alexandr Wang, the world's youngest self-made billionaire?". South China Morning Post. 2022-05-31. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ↑ "MIT dropout Alexandr Wang becomes world's youngest self-made billionaire at 25". Prestige Online - Singapore. 2022-05-27. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ↑ "25-year-old college dropout is now the world's youngest self-made billionaire". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
- ↑ "How Lucy Guo conquered tech and became Miami's number one party girl". New York Post. 2022-05-21. Retrieved 2022-05-29.
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