We moved to the US when we were very young.I didn’t have many friends, so I wasn’t very confident.I spent a lot of time reading.My only real friends were books.Books make for great friends, because the best thinkers of the last few thousand years tell you their nuggets of wisdom.My first job was with an illegal catering company in the back of a van delivering Indian food when I was fifteen.Even when I was younger, I had a paper route and I washed dishes in the cafeteria.I was a totally unknown kid in New York City from a nothing family, an “immigrants trying to survive” situation.Then, I passed the test to get into Stuyvesant High School.That saved my life, because once I had the Stuyvesant brand, I got into an Ivy League college, which led me into tech.Stuyvesant is one of those intelligence lottery situations where you can break in with instant validation.You go from being blue collar to white collar in one move.At Dartmouth, I studied economics and computer science.There was a time when I thought I was going to be a PhD in economics.