I was rejected from internships and had no coding skills. But one thing got me a job at viral AI 'cheating' startup Cluely.

Cătălin Roșioru

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Daniel Min, Cluely's chief marketing officer. Min graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 2025. It has been edited for length and clarity. I got rejected from every single internship I applied to last summer — consulting, finance, tech, and entertainment. At the very end, I settled for a role at a startup called RecruitU as a social media intern. I grew their Instagram from 0 to 100,000 and my own account from 0

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