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Why the “Math Mafia” is doing well

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A few months ago, our Hudson River Trading intern class went viral because the group included Jeff Yan (founder of Hyperliquid), Scott Wu (cofounder of Cognition), Alexandr Wang (founder of Scale), and me with @DecagonAI. It sparked a broader conversation about how my generation, who did math, coding, and science olympiads growing up, represents a disproportionate amount of today’s founders. There’s more of us: Johnny Ho (cofounder of Perplexity), Steven Hao and Walden Yan (other cofounders of Cognition), Demi Guo (cofounder of Pika), Albert Gu (cofounder of Cartesia), the list goes on.…

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