be like gongy
Sarah Chieng (@MilksandMatcha)
I met @_gongy the very first week of MIT.
Years later, one of the most formative things I ever watched was him turn down crazy quant trading offers to join Modal extremely early.
For all of MIT, we were both in Traders@MIT, both headed toward quant trading. I had done two summers in trading and had already signed full-time.
Gongy was a year ahead of me, and I remember watching him walk away from a top quant offer, and a stack of other very legible, very prestigious options to become one of the first people at @modal.
It was an extremely Gongy move.
He has always been one of the most intentional people I know: thoughtful, principled, and willing to make the hard decision before it looks obvious to everyone else.
In many chapters of my life, I’ve felt like I was following in his footsteps because he showed me what it looks like to choose conviction over the default life trajectory.
Happy birthday Gongy!! Grateful for your friendship always.
— https://nitter.net/MilksandMatcha/status/2067724423860539564#m