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by darawk 1374 days ago
They worked together at LinkedIn previously, that's how he knew him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Nash_(executive)#Career

He doesn't explicitly state this in the piece, but it was pretty easy to infer from the things he does say. He has the connection to Nash precisely because he impressed him when he was interning at LinkedIn, before Nash became a VC, and before he founded WealthFront.

This is not a story of privileged connections in the slightest.