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These AI whiz kids dropped out of college and got investors to pay their bills

During this blisteringly fast phase of AI development, it’s no longer enough for venture capital firms to invest in companies. They’re buying apartments and workplaces, Ikea furniture and dishes, and providing housekeeping for their teenage and 20-something founders. The logic: fewer responsibilities mean more waking hours for working.

“If you wait until after you graduate,” said Castellano, a first-generation college student whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Ecuador and Venezuela, “all the good ideas are going to be already taken.”