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“Pedigree”

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I’m writing on the 1 train and it’s the 96th station. I just left Columbia University for a 1:1 counseling session. The update for you is that I’m considering going back to school. Not seriously, but it’s something I owe my immigrant parents to just think about before I hit 25-years-old. Lately, I’ve become absolutely obsessed with this term that startups, especially investors, use: pedigree. This might be a generally shunned on term - considered old fashioned, definitely. Still, in my first two years in the industry, it was one casually landed in the applied instance. Meaning one wouldn’t bring it up if someone wasn’t pedigreed; but if they had it… As you know, I left school on my fourth year, out of five. As much as I feel like I could have, I didn’t receive that platinum steel degree to put up in my parents house. It’s something I considered almost cool for almost a year. That changed when I became close with a friend with the same background as mine, who had fallen in love with a m

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