20-Year-Old Dropouts Became Billionaires in 3 Years by Cornering the Post-Training Data Bottleneck
smtabatabaie · x · 2026-09-16
A viral take: instead of building traditional startups, a cohort of 20-year-old dropouts in 2023 anticipated the exact bottleneck frontier labs would face and became exclusive providers of post-training signal before tech giants realized they needed it — turning them into billionaires in under 3 years.
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