pingo’s hosting a small dropout dinner + pregame for yc startup school.
only for college dropouts and students on leave. limiting it to ~20 people.
july 25 at 7:30pm.
dm me for an invite.
for all you know, this could be your last summer.
as homer wrote, you will never be lovelier than you are right now. so tell her she has a pretty smile. get lean or become a unit. find wonder in boarding the airplane. drink more coffee than you need. walk on the beach until your feet hurt. write your girlfriend a note on a tuesday. waste money because its not all about retirement. pull over at the lookout. ask the uber driver about his life. tell the woman in the elevator you like her shoes and mean it. call your mother. ask the waiter his favorite thing on the menu and order that.
theres so much life in the slow moments, and you sprint past it chasing the next thing. but at any time, in any situation, you can find the good. smile. be happy. recognize it for a one of one life experience. what good is walking around a curmudgeon when tomorrow could be curtains.
for heavens sake, flirt with the world.
i’m taking a gap from @georgiatech to join full-time at one of the fastest growing consumer app startups, @mypingoai
here’s how i got here:
a few months ago, i built and launched my first ever app, Still, with my best friend @vikvang1
coming back to school last fall, i knew i wanted to build consumer software. so i spent the last half of the year chasing my dreams of building an app that i loved, even when i didn’t fully know what i was doing
two weeks ago, those months of work turned into an opportunity i couldn’t pass up
looking back, the dots connected in a way i never could’ve predicted. nothing really made sense in the moment, but it does in retrospect
when you work on something you truly care about, things have a way of working out, even when progress isn’t obvious at first
i’m incredibly grateful to my friends and family who’ve supported me along the way. i’m both excited and scared as i move to san francsico and start this new chapter of my life
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