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    🎥 Watch the full episode on YouTube:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkyeesc6Ky8

    About the Episode

    Welcome to How I Broke Into Tech, a new interview series presented by Udacity, where we sit down with brilliant minds who threw out the rulebook on their paths to creating prolific careers in technology.
    Unconventional paths. Unstoppable careers.

    In this episode, Udacity VP of Consumer Jared Molton interviews Gustavo Trigos, Co-founder and CEO of Mentum, an AI-driven platform backed by Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI Fund) and Y Combinator.

    Trigos’s journey into AI was anything but traditional. Now, he’s on a mission to reshape how industries approach strategic sourcing—proving that with the right mindset and grit, unconventional paths can lead to groundbreaking innovation and fulfilling careers in tech.

    Video Chapters

    • 00:00 – Intro: Meet Gus Trigos, CEO of Mentum
    • 01:24 – Gus’s Background: Growing Up Globally
    • 02:15 – First Step Into Tech: Making House Music at 13
    • 03:55 – Music to Code: From Audio to AI
    • 07:01 – Learning to Code: C++, Mods, and a Python Pivot
    • 08:19 – Tackling Fake News: Gus’s First AI Project
    • 12:06 – Discovering Udacity: A Scholarship That Changed Everything
    • 12:54 – Career Breakthrough: Interning at BlackRock
    • 14:57 – The YC Call: Choosing Startups Over Stability
    • 18:40 – First Startup Idea: Fintech Infrastructure in LatAm
    • 20:01 – Pivoting to Supply Chain: A Hard Truth and a Bigger Opportunity
    • 25:01 – Agentic AI in Action: Real Use Cases
    • 26:57 – Reconnecting to Mission: Impact at Scale
    • 28:21 – Advice on Pivoting and Staying Flexible
    • 29:33 – AI Opportunity Zones: Where Founders Should Look Next
    • 30:14 – Habits of a High-Growth Leader
    • 32:16 – How Mentum Hires: LLM Builders Wanted
    • 34:34 – AI Myths Busted: What It Can and Can’t Do Yet
    • 35:47 – Rookie Mistake: Building Before Validating
    • 37:15 – Rapid Fire Round: Coffee, Debugging, and Coltrane
    • 39:45 – Final Advice: How To Break Into Tech (Even If You’re Stuck)
    • 42:04 – Resources and Reading Recs: Gus’s Book List
    • 43:43 – Outro: Connect with Gus and Keep Learning

    Links & Resources

    Connect with Udacity

    Forge your future in tech with Udacity:
    https://bit.ly/3EoBR3p

    🎵 Intro music usage code: NEY05TTUHBL4981S

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