-: For my personal,
so I, when I was at UVA
I didn't study computer science or anything like that.
I've been kind of like coding since I was a kid.
But I actually went to school for like,
I went to the Calm School,
so I studied like finance and economics.
And I think that was helpful
because in particular we're building
like a financial technology product.
But I think like if you're just like trying to become like,
a CTO co-founder, you should probably do some sort of like
computer science background
and then try to take a lot of like
business strategy classes,
because I feel like if you're trying to start a company
there's like fundamentals that you could learn there.
But I think the biggest thing is just like,
you wanna just start early.
So the earliest you can get in, the better it would be.
But then also I think like the experience at the Calm School
was really helpful
in terms of like learning kind of like
these managerial techniques,
like communication techniques.
And then I also took like a really great course
by Professor Richardson, for like entrepreneurship.
So it was like a entrepreneurship minor,
which like no one can really teach you
how to start a company,
but they teach you a lot of really good frameworks
and ways to think about these problems
as you're going through it.
And I think you should do things where
you're meeting people that you normally wouldn't meet
in your day to day classes.
So it was important for me that I wasn't only hanging out
with people who were also in the Business School.
Like I wanted to hang out with like pre-med majors
and like other like academics,
'cause I feel like that gave me a more well-rounded
perspective on the world.
I think for me I'm looking for people
who are very passionate about what they do
and like if their resume has, here's your work experience
and then here's a bunch of other cool stuff
that you've just built on your own,
I think that's really,
that stands out a lot compared to like someone
who's just like kind of working jobs
and not super passionate about what they're doing.
Like you could be like the brightest person in the world
and get a 4.0,
but I feel like what I look for
is people who care about their work product.
Like, I want engineers who take a lot of pride
in what they're building, not necessarily,
it's like you might build a sub-optimal algorithm
but if you're super proud of what you've built,
I think that's way more important to me
than like someone who might've just been like
able to figure it out quickly on their first try
and not really care about it.