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