After traveling solo through twenty countries, the speaker returned home and joined a UCLA professor's founding team at an early-stage startup. That experience sparked a passion for early-stage investing and a commitment to learning from diverse people and conversations.
So I had this reflexive moment and time away where I actually traveled. So I went to around 20 countries solo and gained some perspective, came back and serendipitously got into early-stage startups. So a professor from UCLA's mechanical engineering department reached out and joined the founding team there, which was really exciting. A lot of lessons learned, and that really ignited this passion to get into early-stage investing and startups, which does genuinely bring me a lot of joy. So that started this whole trajectory into learning as much as possible, just chatting with as many people as possible, listening to all the content I could, I can get my ears on.
Paige of Behind Genius driving an AI electric train in St. Louis (Intramotev Visit)
