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Portrait of Kairan Quazi seated in an orange armchair, looking at the camera

Builders

The Engineer LinkedIn Would Not Let In

Kairan Quazi finished college at 14, joined SpaceX that summer, and at 16 moved to Citadel Securities. His case says less about dropping out than about what employers will look past.

The market centre at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, a glass cylinder and a few screens where a trading floor used to be (context image, not the subject)

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Ten Lines of Code and a Reddit Bot

Nick Dobroshinsky was 15 when a Wall Street Journal profile described his AI stock-research site. A listed company was already quoting it in a press release.