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BUILDERS SERIES · ISSUE 003 George Hotz — known online as geohot — never applied for a job at the companies he competed with. He just built things that proved he didn't need to. The Kid in New Jersey Who Couldn't Leave Things Locked George Hotz grew up in Glen Rock, New Jersey. His father ran technology for a high school. His mother was a therapist. By 14, he was a finalist in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for building a robot that could scan a room

BUILDERS SERIES · ISSUE 002 Andrej Karpathy didn't land a role at OpenAI or Tesla by applying. He built in public — publishing research, teaching for free, releasing code anyone could use. The output made the case no CV ever could. Born in Slovakia. Raised in Canada. Drawn to the Hardest Problems. Andrej Karpathy was born in Bratislava in 1986 and moved with his family to Toronto when he was 15. He studied Computer Science and Physics at the University of Toronto — where, a

BUILDERS SERIES · ISSUE 001 Markus 'Notch' Persson didn't pitch Minecraft to publishers. He didn't raise funding. He just built it - alone, in his flat - and posted it online. What happened next became the best-selling video game in history. A Childhood Built on Code Markus Alexej Persson was born in Stockholm in 1979 and spent his earliest years in Edsbyn — a small, rural community in the Swedish interior, surrounded by forests and space. His father brought home a Commodor

BRAND UPDATE · STUDENTVENTURE & VAULTT The mission stays the same. The platform powering it now has a name. Meet Vaultt - the tech behind everything StudentVenture has been building for students and graduates. First, a bit of context. StudentVenture was built on a simple belief: a CV has never been enough to show who you really are. A one-page document shouldn't determine whether you get a shot at the opportunities you've worked for. So we built something to change that. A wa

About the Initiative StudentVenture - Vaultt's dedicated student and graduate iniative - has partnered with UNiDAYS, Canopy Community, and world-renowned entrepreneur Simon Squibb to launch one of the UK's most ambitious student entrepreneurship programmes to date. The mission is simple: discover the UK's most innovative student founders and give them everything they need to turn bold ideas into real businesses. The Challenge The UK has no shortage of ambitious student founde

TransRe (Transatlantic Reinsurance Company) is a leading global property and casualty reinsurer, operating across more than 20 countries with approximately $5.9 billion in annual premiums and an AA+ financial strength rating. A wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, TransRe is recognised for its underwriting expertise and market insight across sectors including aviation, cyber, health, and liability. The Challenge TransRe wanted to strengthen their thought leadership