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What actually got me a $100K offer from NYU (without my SAT score even mattering). Plus the predicted scores and the Common App that closed the deal.

DevKit made $100 in its first week. The second launch made $1000. Here's the 2-week MVP and Product Hunt playbook that gets you there.

For B2C, it's retention. For SaaS, it's MRR. The shortest possible primer on what to obsess over when you start building a startup.

Two short playbooks for the ZFellows and Draper University applications, plus the one thing both programs are actually selecting for in a 15 minute interview.

How a cold LinkedIn DM and a single call put me in front of 15+ smart people pitching my startup. What to expect when you finally get to that table.

Wellfound brings you 50+ applicants in 24 hours. The hard part is everything that happens after. The simple setup I use to keep small teams shipping.

I cut hours off my workday by adding 30 minutes of running to it. The strange math of staying fit when you think you don't have the time.

Getting into one good community can change your trajectory faster than any job change. The communities that did it for me and how I think about getting in.

Age bias is real. The younger you are, the easier it is to get someone's attention with the same work. A few things I've watched compound by going early.

The mental model I use for stacking wins. One small thing turns into the next slightly bigger thing, and on and on.

Spending hours every week tracking your portfolio is a really expensive hobby for someone early in their career. The smarter move that doubled my returns.

If I had to start over today, I'd do exactly one course. Harvard's CS50 plus a single rule I follow for everything I learn.

Still a work in progress. But these three small habits have already changed my social life more than years of telling myself to 'put myself out there'.

Burned cash on a books giveaway, hired more interns than I could lead, and lost months to Twitter and travel. The receipts on each so you don't repeat them.

The Ivies passed on me. So did a bunch of VCs and startup programs. The exact reasons I think they did, and how I plan to fix it next time.

Six months of work, plenty of mistakes, and the lessons I'd pass on to anyone starting a side project they hope will grow into a business.

Dropped out at 19, going back at 23. Network School isn't a college, but it might be the most useful thing I do this year.

The first few months of a job set the tone for years. Three habits that earn you trust, freedom, and the projects nobody else gets.

India's first medieval AAA game trailer just dropped. A frame by frame breakdown of what AEOS Games got brilliantly right (and the few seconds I'd cut).

A side project I built for fun, launched without prep, and watched cross 100+ likes on Product Hunt the same day. The story behind The Techbro Handbook.

Every founder has to find the ambitious version of their idea eventually. The one I just found for TechKareer is becoming the Google of Engineers.

What they're really looking for, what to put in the form, and how to walk into the interview ready. Notes from someone who got into the May 2022 batch.

ZFellows accepts under 1% of applicants. Here is the exact application I sent, plus the three things I think actually got me in.

A random tweet, a quick application, and an experience that shifted how I think about ambition and what I'm capable of.

Four years of paid SWE work, eight years of writing code on the side, and a hundred conversations later. Everything I wish someone had told me on day one.

Got hired at Avalara (a $10B+ company) as an 18 year old, despite tanking the SQL questions. Here's the actual interview breakdown across all three rounds.

1450 on the SAT, 800 on Math, 740 on Chemistry. A few weeks of prep, one book, and a YouTube channel that did more than most paid courses.