“some days im good at trading” my G i see like 8 moments over the course of 5 years where u had any upward movement at all, if u wanna donate ur tens of thousands ill give u my cashapp, youll actually be able to write off 100% of that money, unlike ur losses😅
> 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?
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> **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.
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> **GR**: wow you were single mindedly focused. You you wanted to go to the best graduate school presumably.
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> **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
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> **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.
Here's my **BIG GONADS** FUND I'm putting together.
Bitcoin (I don't have stocks for "I"or "G" yet, taking considerations)
Googl
Ondas
Nebius
Amazon
Descartes Systems
Shopify
This is the billionaire maker right here. Holding for 20 years.