Jacob Mazelin

Entrepreneur | Robotics @ Umich | Certified Biography Nut

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Our car got hit on the way to Lincoln Financial’s #CodeLinc10. Only zip ties, a screwdriver, and determination

We built an AI fintech assistant with a real-time @elevenlabs voice agent

15 hours of driving, 24 of hacking, and we won first place

"Take a simple idea seriously"

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Before you grasp, you have to reach

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Something I told 14 yo: People are going to stop reading books. I wish this wasn't so, but I fear it is. The silver lining in this cloud is that if you're one of the few people who still read, you'll have a huge advantage over everyone else.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@AJamesMcCarthy Read books, talk to people & iterate rapidly with hardware & software

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This one sentence defines the AI industry

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@ethangwang @FoundersPodcast Episode 10 is one of my personal favorites: "The problems are never going to stop. There is no finish line."

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“Reading is key. Reading has made me rich over time”

-Warren Buffett

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Some are lucky who are blessed with a mentor who truly makes a difference throughout their life. But you can make the biggest difference of all by yourself.

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A good leader is always learning. A great leader starts learning young and continues until their last breath

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“Play Nice But Win”

One of my favorite books and phrases

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One does not create a business, a business creates itself when the circumstances are ready for it

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My personal motivation to workout everyday. How you do one thing is how you do everything. Thanks @kevin2kelly

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@ethangwang Henry Kaiser

[Ethan Wang @ethangwang]

Wsg X, I’m Ethan

20 y/o currently on leave from Purdue,
because I’ve learned more from hackathons and biographies

- NYC → NJ → SF Bay Area
- prev. @styl_app @LinkedIn @northropgrumman
- 35k+ Followers & 25M+ Views
- Listened to 260+ episodes of @FoundersPodcast
- Read 210 books
- Watched 468 Movies
- Listened to 888,379 mins of music
- Ex-professional ice hockey
- 18 collegiate + hs hackathon wins

I only live to follow my heart and find the others

so if you're into startups or just wanna be friends, let’s chop it up :)

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Humans are born bad but taught to be good. Babies are relentless and won’t stop crying for what they want.

We should all be good humans, but not too good that we play by the rules. In order to achieve what you want, you must learn to control the bad side to your advantage.

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Would you follow along? It’s insane that one person can have this kind of power and influence on people

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@photonhq Applied!

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@wesbos Love of the game

[Sourish Jasti @SourishJasti]

1/ General-purpose robotics is the rare technological frontier where the US / China started at roughly the same time and there's no clear winner yet.

To better understand the landscape, @zoeytang_1007, @intelchentwo, @vishnuman0 and I spent the last ~8 weeks creating a deep dive on humanoid robotics hardware and flew to China to see the supply chain firsthand.

Here's everything we've created + our takeaways about the components, humanoid comparisons, supply chains, and geopolitics👇

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@adisingh Solid choice of retro games

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Only one thing is guaranteed: you won’t succeed if you don’t try