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Before co-founding Scale AI, Wang began his journey in tech as a coder for Quora at the tender age of 17. Influenced by Quora’s CEO Adam D’Angelo, who spoke about the potential drawbacks of a traditional college experience, Wang left MIT after his freshman year to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations.
Despite initially downplaying Scale AI as just a summer project to his parents, he recognized its vast potential. Together with co-founder Lucy Guo and backed by an investment from the startup accelerator Y Combinator, they sought to address a gap in the market: a lack of human resources necessary to manage and label massive collections of driving data.