> He got his PhD from MIT Sloan Automotive Lab and started Rivian in 2009. His passion for cars and specifically building the best possible electric vehicle from a product perspective really shows. Listen to his interview on How I Built This. - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rivian-rj-scaringe/id1150510297?i=1000578203598 - https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-rivian-rj-scaringe/ > **GUY RAZ**: And then you you went on to get your your doctorate at MIT. But I guess I'm wondering you were you were hoping to start a car company? You knew this from the time you were young. So so why did you think you needed a PhD? > > **RJ**: The reason for that was really quite simple. I I knew that we would need and I would need a lot of capital to start a business like this. And I felt that if if someone were to invest in a company, a car company which admittedly is an extremely high risk proposition that demonstrating some level of intellectual rigor and intellectual capability through a, through a PhD would be helpful in that regard. So I studied and worked really hard. I graduated number one in the school from RPI. With a perfect G. P. > > **GR**: wow you were single mindedly focused. You you wanted to go to the best graduate school presumably. > > **RJ**: Yeah I was very close and in fact signed onto a position at Stanford but ultimately switched a few days into that to MIT. And the reason was I was selecting the grad school based upon what I thought would best position me for for starting Rivian > > **GR**: You're like a unicorn in that sense because I almost never meet people who were that sort of had that much foresight. You were literally thinking about how MIT Could help you in your quest to start a car company one day. RJ is the engineer that people thought Elon was. He only went to MIT because he thought it would help him with his legitimacy when he would have to raise capital later on (ultimate flex). His entire life was basically leading up to Rivian so I have faith that he's not in it for the memes and stonks like Elon is and Rivian will have legs in the long run because it's his life's work and not a piggybank.

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Not claimed to be a self made billionaire after going to fucking MIT

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> MIT Comp Sci graduate Yeah, self made alright

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Want to truly understand how bad this bubble truly is? Read this incredible book by WSJ reporter, MIT Tech Review and Atlantic writer, Karen Hao. Get the audiobook and listen when you do chores. It's very easy to follow. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI https://a.co/d/hFWZRg3 She describes how they will keep throwing money at this, keep pumping it to make inequality worst it has ever been.

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She's not asking for help lol. If I remember correctly from the last post she also has someone from MIT help her with her portfolio strategy.

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“It’s like a sports bookmaker” - I think youre missing my point but at the same point proving it. Theres some 25 year old MIT grad that can barely speak hes so autistic, currently modeling out the market for his 20 billion dollar quant at this very moment. He is not on the same playing field as 99% of this sub. Thats my point.

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The central to eastern US is set to be blasted with some of the most extreme cold anywhere on Earth just before Christmas, according to a shocking new forecast. From the Midwest to the East Coast temperatures will be about 15 to 20 degrees below the December average beginning in about the third week of the month, MIT climatologist Judah Cohen predicted. In New York City, temperatures are typically about 37 degrees Fahrenheit in mid-December – meaning the city could experience sustained colds in the low 20s to teens.

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