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PhD Drop-out, Palantir & Upsolve (YC W24). Meet Ka Ling.
Ka Ling dropped out of her EPFL PhD to work on more fast-paced, direct-impact projects at Palantir. She then co-founded Upsolve AI (YC W24). She also…
Apr 25
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PhD Drop-out, Palantir & Upsolve (YC W24). Meet Ka Ling.
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ETH AI Fellow, Soft Robotics Lab & Building Mimic. Meet Elvis.
Elvis switched from a CS masters to robotics, when he joined the ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellowship. He then went all in to build dexterous hands …
Apr 7
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ETH AI Fellow, Soft Robotics Lab & Building Mimic. Meet Elvis.
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March 2025
Building Browser Use, going through YC & raising a $17M Seed. Meet Magnus.
After a failed start-up, Magnus built Browser Use (YC W25) at ETH Student Project House together with Greg. Their launch went viral, they got into YC …
Mar 24
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Building Browser Use, going through YC & raising a $17M Seed. Meet Magnus.
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November 2024
YouTube, 4x Google and OpenMined. Meet Irina.
Irina started coding at 10. Since then, she landed multiple internships at YouTube & Google (even in the US!). She did her Master thesis at Google…
Nov 25, 2024
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YouTube, 4x Google and OpenMined. Meet Irina.
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September 2024
Physics at ETHZ, Google Quantum AI & MIT. Meet Alexander.
Born in Switzerland, Alexander studied physics at ETH Zurich before starting an MIT PhD. In parallel, he joined Google Quantum AI, where he aims to make…
Sep 17, 2024
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Anirudhh Ramesh
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Physics at ETHZ, Google Quantum AI & MIT. Meet Alexander.
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August 2024
TUM.ai, MIT and Y Combinator. Meet Alex.
Alex started seriously coding right before college and got into AI even later. Still, he managed to achieve impressive things such as leading TUM.ai…
Aug 7, 2024
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TUM.ai, MIT and Y Combinator. Meet Alex.
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July 2024
Switching from business to tech, building Stacksync & joining YCombinator. Meet Ruben.
Ruben’s been selling since he was a kid. This led him to St. Gallen to study business. He then switched to Data Science at EPFL (🤯) and is now building…
Jul 19, 2024
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Switching from business to tech, building Stacksync & joining YCombinator. Meet Ruben.
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June 2024
Dropping out TUM to build & ship. Meet Robert.
Robert dropped out of TUM when ChatGPT came out. He joined a hacker house, went viral for his local LLM demos and launched Fixkey.ai. He just got into…
Jun 19, 2024
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Dropping out TUM to build & ship. Meet Robert.
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May 2024
LauzHack, Sonos and Open Source. Meet Eric.
Originally from the Bay Area, Eric moved to Europe for something different. He came to EPFL for the Masters, where he co-founded LauzHack. After working…
May 1, 2024
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LauzHack, Sonos and Open Source. Meet Eric.
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April 2024
Exit to DJI, working at Tesla and building in Y Combinator. Meet Timothée.
During EPFL, Timothée built MotionPilot, an FPV drone controller which he sold to DJI. He then joined Tesla for 2 years. Currently, he's at YC building…
Apr 9, 2024
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Anirudhh Ramesh
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Exit to DJI, working at Tesla and building in Y Combinator. Meet Timothée.
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Google, Bending Spoons and Quadrature. Meet Arina.
After getting embarrassed in coding class, Arina started competitive programming. This led her to intern at BitDefender, Bending Spoons, even Google…
Apr 2, 2024
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Google, Bending Spoons and Quadrature. Meet Arina.
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March 2024
Berkeley, Withings and leaving engineering for design. Meet Pierre-Louis.
Sick of theoretical ML exercises, Pierre-Louis questioned his micro-engineering studies. Despite others' expectations, he switched to design, which led…
Mar 28, 2024
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Berkeley, Withings and leaving engineering for design. Meet Pierre-Louis.
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