In the circumstances, Russell's ultra-bald LinkedIn profile - which simply lists his company, Luminar Technologies, and Stanford (even though he didn't actually graduate), might be dismissed as the result rather than the cause of his success. And now Russell is becoming a billionaire via a SPAC. He was only at Stanford for six months when he dropped out, aided by Peter Thiel the early Facebook investor. He began his business aged 17 after converting his parents' garage into an optics and electrics lab (his father is a real estate developer and knew very little about what his son was up to) where he could investigate, "how we apply physics into the real world to solve problems in new dimensions." Instead of high school, Russell attended the Beckman Laser Institute for a bit, and was encouraged to apply to Stanford's Applied Physics School. His special talent is lasers and light sensing systems which can be used by autonomous vehicles to detect hard to see objects at long distances in low light.
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Now he's a billionaire, and everyone else with all those things is earning a low six figure salary plus bonus. He didn't even allow for the distraction of a degree. Russell didn't waste his time on taster days, spring internships, and summer programmes.
The LinkedIn profile of Austin Russell, the 25 year-old founder and chief executive of Luminar Technologies, is a case in point. If you want to get ahead in the world as a 20-something of high ability and higher aspiration, you need a LinkedIn profile - right? And it needs to be filled with the sorts of signals that identify you as a fully-engaged member of the meritocracy who's been through multiple internships, a tier one school and has some Olympiad wins.īut what if this just indicates that you're the sort of excellent sheep berated by a Yale University professor a few years ago? What if the real ballers have different sorts of LinkedIn profiles entirely?
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