[envoked]

* My parents leaving Romania for the US (on the Greencard lottery) when I was 10. * Leaving a large company to work on a product I believed in (Airbnb 2012). * Not paying too much attention to my peers and doing what felt right: not getting a service job as a teenager and freelance coding(even when my effective hourly rate ended up being lower than working at Subway), becoming a farmhand after working as an engineer; taking a job at an art hedge fund in NYC while living in rural Washington. * Viewing money as a side product rather than a goal.

[xander2011]

That’s a really interesting history. I took a very traditional route. How did you end up positioning yourself for jobs like the art hedge fund? In my experience that would have required some amount of real life social connections or hustling. Just curious... for my kid’s sake.