One Realization Away From Thinking at Scale
Rajat Suri was supposed to be a doctor. That was the plan. The Indian dream, as he puts it. And he was on track.
Then he walked into a three-hour lecture by a professor named Larry Smith at the University of Waterloo — and everything changed.
One idea cracked him open: that a single individual could change the sweep of history. Not just help one person at a time, but reshape how millions of people live their daily lives. That realization sent him down a path that led to co-founding Zimride (which became Lyft), building Presto — the AI-powered drive-thru technology used in major restaurant…
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