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* Graduated university at age 16, Math PhD at age 20 (RPI) * Performed with New York City Ballet * Sang with Placido Domingo * Founding investor in Napster
by adrianscott 17y ago
* Graduated university at age 16, Math PhD at age 20 (RPI)
* Performed with New York City Ballet
* Sang with Placido Domingo
* Founding investor in Napster
* Credited as a pioneer in social networking, founding
pioneering one in 2001, which heavily influenced Friendster which led to myspace, facebook etc.
* Acted in Sundance Feature Film competition selection
* Now doing next big thing, hehe ;)
- simplegeek 17y agoYou, sir, are an inspiration. Graduated at age 16? Wow. I only managed to drop out twice (undergrad) but some how ended up in graduate school (took my first midterm today (MS CE)).
- adrianscott 17y agoThank you. The biggest items helping me with this were 1) never enrolling in high school, 2) RPI gave me credit for coursework I had done but had not officially received credit for outside the system, and 3) careful management and fine-tuning of graduation requirements, along with a slightly higher than average courseload. It would have been nice if I'd thought ahead a little more as I was not well prepared for grad school applications, with my second year being my senior year.
- adrianscott 17y agoP.S. a big part of #2 was Johns Hopkins U's CTY program, plus courses I sat in on at Skidmore College, to give them some credit.
- FreeRadical 17y agoJust out of interest, what was the one in 2001?
- adrianscott 17y agoThanks for asking -- Ryze. We don't do a lot of P.R. on it these days, so many don't know of it, but in those first years it was mentioned multiple times in NY Times, Wall St. Journal, industry pubs, etc.