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Cosmin Nicolaescu, Chief Technology Officer at Brex: How to Become a CTO of a Multibillion-dollar Startup in Only 10 Years

The Blind Ambition with Jack Kelly

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Is There a Difference Between Exceptional Founders and Common People?

I wish I would have done more because it was very much about like you're going to go to school, get good grades. The main value that the college brought me other than really fun memories was forcing me to learn how to study. It's a little bit different where you have like 15, 16 subjects every year and so you basically always study everything. But in college, for the most part, you get to study the things you like,. modulo a few different classes that you have to get elected for. Even then you have enough choices. And then I'm going to go into an industry that I really enjoy. So it's like, that's what I want to do.

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