Arlan Rakhmetzhanov

I used to finish homework at 6 AM so I had time to build during school hours—until I got sent to principal's office for taking investor calls. So I dropped out of 11th grade to raise $1 million in a few days.

At 15, I launched my first startup, which grew to 20,000 users. A year later, I cold-emailed my way into research at Stanford and worked closely with a professor from Caltech on Cobra, a powerful interactive tool for identifying defects and suspicious patterns in source code.