A High School Dropout Builds $1B Startup at 23 | Vise Samir Vasavada

Today's story is about Samir, who operates Vise. Samir, unbelievably, started taking university classes at the age of 12 and founded his first company at the age of 13. Faced with the failure of his first two startups, Samir encounters new opportunities. He drops out of high school and moves to San Francisco's Tenderloin district. He lived there and he begins to grow his company. After numerous failures and challenges, his company reaches a corporate valuation of $1 billion. His age is only 23, making him the youngest person to own a $1 billion company. Let's meet his story in the video!

00:00 Intro
00:49 Chapter 1. A 13-Year-Old Builder
04:47 Chapter 2. Learning from failures
08:49 Chapter 3. Right people make better result
11:59 Chapter 4. Do what you're passionate about

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[ElianaKeith]

Every family has that one person who will break the family financial struggle, I hope you become the one

[ab.normal.]

This is one of the best, genuine entrepreneur interview ever online.

[nicholaswoods]

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure, It's built on fraustration. it's built on fear that you have to overcome. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life

[mandateonmandalay]

This bro exactly knows what he's doing and what he's talking about. These are very impressive words to hear from such a younger person. As someone who deep dives into this industry, I can feel the every value he can provide since his teenage days. Congratulations bro you're amazing.

[vishalkarna]

At such an young age he has so much wisdom and courage to follow his passion at any cost and worked hard. Inspirational person already.

[TalesOfTrillions]

Love how Samir emphasizes the importance of learning from failures. It's not about how many times you fall, but how many times you get back up and keep pushing forward.

[FatLossuniversityy]

This kid is on a whole different vibration! Pure class

[InFellowShip]

Boy, with every sentence, I have to pause the video and take notes, because it's genuine.

[ReflectionOcean]

- Recognize the value of real-world problem solving over formal education (00:12)

- Prioritize hiring individuals with the right mindset and customer focus (00:25)

- Continuously iterate products based on customer feedback (07:35)

- Maintain direct communication with customers to improve the product and sales (08:10)

- Focus on hiring top performers and incentivizing them properly (09:19)

- Embed customer obsession into the company culture (11:43)

[programmer_]

I am from Pakistan. Truly inspired by this guy. Hats off to this young guy..

[AwomKenneth]

one thing I can say for sure is that never ignore that hunger that calling that forces you to look unreasonable in the eyes of the society

[ellesunshyn]

Such a bright and hardworking young man!

[borisk]

i was spellbound untill he said, they were offering consultancy to great Banks at 14, chargin 500-1000€. At 14 without external support you can't just do that. That seems very irrealistic to me or at least the story is not complete or rather embellished. It is important to be transparent with people so that they have realistic expectations

[redgrant]

So, who incorporated the "consulting" business? Who provided the service agreements and contracts for the consulting business? Who provided liability protection if the 14 year olds AI advice hurt a Goldman client? How was the 14 year old able to attend school and also give investment banking presentations at the same time? Sounds like an Elon Musk story. So many missing details. The answer is that there are people behind the scenes pulling the strings.

[NEO-wlox]

such an astronomically flourishing and sophisticated guy, who dropped off genuinely mesmerizing perceptions and remarkable speech.As I am programmer who still trying to see light in tunnel, I think i should literally single out to this guy

[omkar]

I am surprised by the fact that he was consulting Investment banks at such a young age. At that age even our families don't take us seriously. Moreover, machine learning is such a deep subject. TBH, I am finding it hard to believe in his story. Having a 1B startup at 23 is believable because there are a lot of such cases now and really irrational valuations and pump and dump schemes and so on. Not saying his startup is not good.

[plannerjoy]

9:01 “The right people that are thinking about solving the right customer problems, operating at the right speed, is what makes companies grow and scale faster.” Incredibly insightful quote for a 23 year old.

[LawrenceMbogo-fq]

What I have learned from this young dude is that, as long as you give something of value, the world will reward you for it. Age is just a number and tech has really revolutionized the world. Young guys are doing bug things because they are taking the leap of faith and doing the unthinkable.

[rsKayiira]

This kid is genuinely very smart, ambitious and focused