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I started building apps in high school. A cold email to a Stanford professor changed my life.

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Adrit Rao, a freshman at the University of California, Berkeley, who landed a full-time job at the AI health company Cognita before ever setting foot on campus. His identity and employment have been verified by Business Insider. This story has been edited for length and clarity. I was 8 years old when I got introduced to a block-based programming language called Scratch. I was really into playing video games, and I could put these blocks

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I started building apps in high school. A cold email to a Stanford professor changed my life. https://www.businessinsider.com - 09.05.2026 14:30
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