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		Sagat on Oct 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I wrote a book called Winning Isn't Normal Off topic question: It says on your profile that you studied Bio and Philosophy at Stanford. How did you go from that to being a tech entrepreneur?

jasonshen on Oct 11, 2013 [–]

One of the book bonuses is a 30 min interview about exactly that - career path. Short answer is being friendly and doing a lot of extracurriculars - started a nonprofit with some friends including a guy named Kalvin, who was a CS major, eventually became my roommate and cofounder at Ridejoy.

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