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“Back then I was nerding out on central banking—then I showed up at MIT and ended up mining Ethereum from my dorm room.” @kenzimori catches up with @annakaz ( @Vana ) about her early arc: how a straight-line interest in institutions and monetary policy flipped into crypto after
“Gary Gensler was teaching a class while I was on campus. I skipped it—and I’ve regretted it ever since.” @kenzimori links up with @annakaz , founder of @Vana , about those small early moments that quietly shape how you think—like brushing up against future regulators, and [Spoken audio]: Did you cross paths with SPF or Gary Gensler? Okay, I did. So yeah, I laughed. Yeah, so Gary Gensler was teaching a class, but I didn't take it because a lot of the undergrads, I think, wrote off some of the Sloan MBA grad classes. Oh, my God, it's not technical enough. We're going to take these network design distributed systems classes. I wish I had. He would be a really interesting character to have shaped some of my world view. I wonder what he was. I should actually, I think the course is online, right? I should actually look at it and kind of understand what he was teaching. But I didn't overlap with SPF. Yeah, I was supposed to graduate in 2019. I actually ended up dropping out because I started a company that came out of automating my job as an intern sorting documents, and then went through YC, learned this whole fund like Silicon Valley, and I was like, this place is amazing. You can just build technology and scale it. Maybe I was not there when we might have overlapped, but overlapped with a lot of other great founders, great people like Jing, the optimism founder, was in the MIT Bitcoin Club and shaped a lot a lot of my worldview. David Borek, too, who's now starting Glow Protocol, but he founded SIA, was like the first entrepreneur I met when I was a freshman, and I was like, wow, you can start a company from nothing and just scale this technology. So very grateful for MIT's agriculture and just the number of great people who I got to learn from.
