George Sivulka

George Sivulka is founder and CEO of Hebbia, which builds AI software for finance and other document-heavy work. He dropped out of a fully funded Stanford Ph.D. program at 23, according to Forbes.

Teaching Math 51 at Stanford

As a Ph.D. student he taught Math 51, a large Stanford course, and later watched many of those students become knowledge workers. "I had never seen such smart people going through so much hell, doing such stupid things over and over and over again," he told The MAD Podcast. He kept up his research as a computational neuroscientist.

A Notebook for the Morgan Stanley Office

He built a Jupyter notebook running an early neural information retrieval model and gave it to former students in Morgan Stanley's office in Menlo Park, California, to read one type of filing, the DEF 14A. He then took a leave of absence from the Ph.D. and never went back.