How I Became A Founder: Quo Finance’s Neel Yerneni
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Neel is the CTO and cofounder of Quo Finance. After previously working at Facebook and N26 (Europe’s largest mobile bank), he joined Tucker more than a year ago to start Quo while they were still at Stanford. At school, he completed his Bachelor’s in Mathematical and Computational Science and his Master’s in Computer Science in 4 years where he focused on Artificial Intelligence and Decision Theory. He was also a peer advisor for his undergraduate department and president of an initiative that aimed to democratize access to competitive debate. Coming from Houston, Neel is a huge Rockets and James Harden fan.
Frederick Daso: When did you first gain interest in being a founder?
Neel Yerneni: I took a long time to conceptualize the idea of a founder — at least in the ways it is characterized and represented in the Valley. For a long time, it just felt like I was following leads on what I was interested in doing and ultimately landed on something that I felt most energetic about. I never really subscribed or listened to the “startup culture”. People often talk about Stanford as being the cradle of entrepreneurship, but it’s pretty overstated — the average tech grad ends up…
