At 25, Ali Ansari Has Put Himself on Track to Be a Billionaire With Micro1

Ansari has grown his AI recruiter into a data lab with a valuation over $2.5 billion by seizing each new opportunity as it comes.

BY VARSHA BANSAL, FREELANCE WRITER

Last year, Ali Ansari was a master’s student at Stanford University when he sent a message to Andrew Maas, his computer science professor. Maas, who taught CS 224S: Spoken Language Processing, had earned his PhD from Stanford in 2015 and then worked as an engineer at Apple. Though Ansari was then only 24 years old, he had a proposal for his well-respected professor: join his fledgling startup, Micro1, as VP of engineering.

Maas didn’t respond at first, but that didn’t discourage Ansari. “I applied to the Stanford master’s program while I was building Micro1 pretty much for the sole purpose of........

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