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How a tweet led to me joining @chamath's new company @8090solutions:
(We are hiring 10x engineers! Share a project you've built that you are most proud of if interested!)
My friend @TheZachEffect works with the summit and was telling me about the great speakers last year (@tobi @MrBeast , etc).
Major FOMO. But the $7000+ ticket was outside my student budget
My friend @ZoomifiGuy was going and shared @Jason's post giving away one free ticket
I knew I had to give it a shot!
I thought about why I wanted to go
As a Waterloo engineering student I'm in a bubble of engineers and technical people
But most people using technology are very different from me
I wanted to talk to people who are interested in technology/AI but come from different backgrounds. What are they excited for/interested in?
Packaged this up in a Tweet and hit "Post"
To my surprise, @Jason gave me the ticket! So within a day I booked a flight, got on a plane and flew from Toronto to Los Angeles for a conference
@heidibraun helped get me into the "VIP" dinner (thank you!)
There I saw @chamath. He was mobbed by people so it was hard to get a word in and talk to him
I saw him go to the washroom and took my chance
I went in as well and started washing my hands
Five minutes later Chamath joins me and I introduce myself, tell him I'm a @UWaterloo student and talk about my project dubbah dot co I had built with my friend @povgoggles
He tells me about his new company @8090solutions , and tells me to send my resume to his email
I meet with his team. Instantly impressed by how smart they are and their technical chops. They liked me too and the rest is history!
Big thanks to @Yung_Spielburg for letting me crash on his couch!
It was also great seeing old friends and making new ones:
@BigBrother_Jane @drfzs @ChrisMadden_
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