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Jason Portnoy

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  1. “So I went directly from undergrad, but what I found was most of my classmates had not. So a lot of them had gone and had some kind of prior work experience before coming to grad school. Consulting was a big one, investment banking was a big one. Some of them had family businesses that they helped run.”

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  2. “What someone does, yeah, and I actually really had tried to get into a PhD program. I thought that that was my destiny. And I didn't. And I was really upset about that. And for the first year, when I was in graduate school, I was trying so hard to get into the PhD program. And I couldn't. And looking back, I think it's probably a good thing. I think the life of a PhD researcher probably wouldn't have suited me as well as the direction I've gone in”

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  3. “I just thought that's what everyone did. I didn't know that there was any, I didn't know that there was any other way. My parents had all gone to graduate school and they had gone directly after undergrad. And I just thought that's what you did.”

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  4. “So different schools call it by different names. Sometimes you'll hear operations research. Sometimes you'll hear industrial engineering. A lot of times those departments are combined. So it'll be IEOR industrial engineering and operations research. Stanford's department. I forget the name when I first got there, but the name changed to management, science, and engineering. And so that's why technically my degree is in.”

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  5. “Well, it probably started in college when I was an undergrad. I was at University of Colorado at Boulder. And at some point my dad always giving me suggestions on what to study said maybe you should get a minor in business so you at least learn the basics and the minor in business that I got was like one accounting class, one finance class, one macroeconomics class, one microeconomics class and so on and so forth. When I went off to grad school, if you think about what I had studied as an undergrad, I had chemistry, math, and now business, and I liked the intersection of the math and the business more than I liked the intersection of the other and the other things. And so I got a master's degree at Stanford in a field that was really a combination of math and business.”

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  6. “I would be lying if I said I knew exactly because I never worked as a chemical engineer. So I studied it when I was studying that in college. A lot of it was around things in the oil and gas industry. And so I think at a high level, you could say a chemist might figure something out in a laboratory, some kind of chemical process, and then a chemical engineer might be responsible for figuring out how to mass produce that thing. So a chemist maybe makes a little bit in a vial, but how do you make tons and tons and tons of this stuff? It's actually really challenging because you have... Heat and thermal dynamics and all kinds of stuff like that.”

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  7. “I did when I went off to college. I didn't really know exactly what I wanted to do, but I liked chemistry and I liked math, and my dad suggested, why don't you do chemical engineering because it will be a blending of those two things, and so I said, great. Actually, then I looked up on a table of starting salaries for different majors. And at the time, chemical engineers made the highest starting salary of any major in college. And I said, that's perfect. Sounds good.”

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  8. “I grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey, a town called Hillsborough, New Jersey. My parents both worked. I had a sister or still have a sister who's about five years older than me. We had a couple cats, a family dog. I was pretty kind of quintessential suburban life. There were sidewalks on the street. I played with my friends on the street. We had a pool in the backyard. It was great.”

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  9. “Well, I love coffee. So the second night. I slept so deeply it was like disorienting. I woke up in the middle of the night. I felt like I was drowning in the ocean and I was like, no, don't send me back there. And then I fell asleep again. And I've just been sleeping like a baby for the last week.”

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  10. “I just went cold turkey. I was only drinking a cup of coffee with breakfast in the morning, maybe a cup of decaf in the afternoon. But then... I was having trouble sleeping the last few months, and I kept thinking it was just kind of stress and nerves around the book launch and all of this stuff, this uncharted territory. And then finally about eight days ago, I was like, maybe it's caffeine. Let me just not have coffee today. And that night. I slept so hard I drooled on my pillow”

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  11. “It was very complete, except it's missing the coffee, I love coffee, but I'm not drinking coffee right now because it was interfering with my sleep.”

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