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The New Youngest Self-Made Billionaire In The World Is A 25-Year-Old College Dropout
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:40 am
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:40 am
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Wang’s six-year-old San Francisco–based company, Scale AI, has already inked three contracts worth up to $110 million, contingent on the government’s needs, to help America’s Air Force and Army employ artificial intelligence. Pretty impressive for a 25-year-old.
Scale’s technology analyzes satellite images much faster than human analysts to determine how much damage Russian bombs are causing in Ukraine. It’s useful not just for the military. More than 300 companies, including General Motors and Flexport, use Scale, which Wang started when he was 19, to help them pan gold from rivers of raw information—millions of shipping documents, say, or raw footage from self-driving cars.
A $325 million funding round last year valued Scale, which generates an estimated $100 million in revenue, at $7.3 billion. Wang’s estimated 15% stake is worth $1 billion, making him the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. (The next-youngest is Pedro Franceschi, the 25-year-old Brazilian cofounder of credit card company Brex.)
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Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:45 am to LSUDVM1999
(Tech) geniuses dropping out of college and starting outrageously successful business has done immense damage to retarded high school and college students all over the country
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:47 am to LSUDVM1999
“ This is my friend Mr. Wang . . . no offense!”
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:48 am to LSUDVM1999
That Wang’s got a big head
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:50 am to LSUDVM1999
So he's an estimated billionaire due to inflated stock valuation
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:52 am to LSUDVM1999
China spy
Posted on 5/26/22 at 7:52 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Yup, this dude dropped out of MIT not BRCC.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:11 am to LSUDVM1999
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Wang
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As a kid, Wang was a math whiz who competed in national math and coding competitions. In 6th grade, he signed up for his first national math competition intent on securing a free ticket to Disney World. He didn’t win the competition, but he clinched his trip to the magic kingdom. By 17, he was working full-time coding at the question-and-answer site Quora, where he met Scale’s cofounder, Lucy Guo. He made a quick detour to MIT to study machine learning and started Scale with Guo the summer after his freshman year, with an investment from Y Combinator. “I told my parents it was just going to be a thing I did for the summer,” Wang says. “Obviously, I never went back to school.”
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:18 am to LSUDVM1999
Wang’s 
He still has a 3 inch pecker
He still has a 3 inch pecker
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:20 am to LSUDVM1999
When “learn to code” goes right
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:20 am to LSUDVM1999
Article says he sold his product to the government. Artificial market created by our tax dollars. Sounds like a very smart person but let’s not act like this would be possible without the government meddling in the first place.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 8:24 am to TigerDog83
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Wang
Don't tell 'em you're Jewish.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 9:01 am to LSUDVM1999
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America’s Air Force and Army employ artificial intelligence.
Skynet is here. I welcome our new robot overlords
Posted on 5/26/22 at 9:12 am to LSUDVM1999
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Scale AI, has already inked three contracts worth up to $110 million, contingent on the government’s needs, to help America’s Air Force and Army employ artificial intelligence.
Someone from the future is probably going to come back in time and try to kill this guy.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 9:16 am to TigerDog83
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Article says he sold his product to the government. Artificial market created by our tax dollars. Sounds like a very smart person but let’s not act like this would be possible without the government meddling in the first place.
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TigerDog83
WTF exactly is your point? HE analyzed the market available to him and exploited it.
I don't think you have a point. Governments do shape markets, but it is up to capitalists to exploit them.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 9:30 am to LSUDVM1999
AI will be the extinction of humans.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 9:31 am to The Torch
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He still has a 3 inch pecker
Lotta unaccomplished jealous mfers in here
Posted on 5/26/22 at 9:38 am to LSUDVM1999
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Scale AI
Musk will stop him.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 10:06 am to LSUDVM1999
Wang should've been the name of Jackass 4.5
Posted on 5/26/22 at 10:08 am to LSUDVM1999
Who wants to be right when being Wang is so much better.
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