excited and humbled to have won at the largest and first 24 hour overnight yc hackathon 🏆1st place daedalus $2000 cash , $500 api 🏆1st place browser-use $2000 cash, 1 week stay in marina hacker house and an invite to openai hq! raising the angel round earlier this week had

seeing twitter personas and then actually meeting the person irl is so funny loll

oh that one jia seed AHHHHHHH

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I think the most dangerous skillset combo right now is builder (designer or engineer) AND filmmaker. You're a 1 person factory from creation to distribution.

i can cook a great burger tho (ft. my chef uniform)

also helped me largely ignore badges + titles of prestige / clout and build respectfully

i was never a quant, won olympiads, or went to a prestigious university for a while, my best credentials were that i was a student at michigan state university and a restaurant chef at culver’s i felt like an asian disappointment and that i let my family down. i still don’t

.@jia_seed on agency:

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8. since then, i've won a few more hackathons. (peep the profile) also please ignore how chopped i look in these

7. these days, as a founder, i’m in the same predicament. founding is a new arena, and I’m inexperienced. but from hackathons, I learned that inexperience doesn’t mean you’re bad. and humility matters

6. I also knew that no one owed me a spot on their team. It was a good lesson in focusing on myself and building skills to earn respect. People don’t owe you anything. Not a spot in their programs, not favors, not backing

5. as a beginner, people will doubt you. but back then, I knew I went into that hackathon to win. there was a quiet confidence in knowing I’d be willing to put the work in

4. then won 1st place in hardware, solo, beating out the teams I had previously messaged

3. after 30 dms, I still couldn’t find a team, so I stayed up and worked the entire 24 hours

2. this was in the ohio blossomhack discord, my second ever hackathon. the answers I’d get were: “hey, we’re looking for someone with more experience,” or “our team just filled up, sorry.”

two years ago, in 2023, I was begging anyone I could to join their hackathon teams after 30 dms, i was rejected by every single team for being inexperienced, so i won the whole category solo this is the story of first finding self-confidence (thread)

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