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Early Career and Education

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Wang's path from competitions to Scale AI idea

Alexandr Wang grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, did math and computer science competitions, worked at Quora after high school, then attended MIT where he trained his first models on TensorFlow and developed the idea for Scale AI.

Alexandr Wang Early Career and Education Source at 0:41

Working at a company teaches valuable operational insights for founders.

Alexandr Wang believes working at a company before starting one is valuable because you learn how companies operate, iterate, and make decisions, insights unavailable from the outside.

Alexandr Wang Early Career and Education Source at 1:36

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