Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Alexandr Wang: Silicon Valley's youngest billionaire rebel

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It is hard to believe that a calm and gentle young man, as he has been seen in at least a couple of interviews, has made big businessmen in Silicon Valley tremble, as did Alexandr Wang, who at 21 years old was named by Forbes magazine as one of the new largest billionaires in the world.

Of Chinese origin, with scientist parents and academic siblings, he spent his childhood at the New Mexico Military Base, the same base where the first atomic bomb was dropped.

Unlike other entrepreneurs, Wang started from scratch and managed to get into one of the most prestigious universities in the technological field in all of America.

In 2016, surrounded by a scientific environment due to his own family context and, shortly after saying goodbye to his teenage years, Alexandr, then 19 years old, created in his bedroom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) one of the most recent and, presumably, the