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After 12th grade, what changed my life was a Thiel Fellowship.
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So Peter Thier is the founder of PayPal, early investor in Facebook.
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How does a 12th grader know about who Peter Thiel is?
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Rebel without a cause?
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$50 ,000, right?
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$100 ,000.
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Right?
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So, 71 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000
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,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000
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,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 Big delight.
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Now, How does a 12th grader get to know even about Peter Thia?
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So, rebel without a cause are So I've never seen a movie for years.
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But when you get some internship stipends, you can see social network movies.
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In that, there is this person called Peter Thiel who gives the first $100 ,000 cheque.
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So next time I go to a cybercast.
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How does that work just for people who are watching and interested?
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not just Thiel Fellowship, but anything similar that they'd like to apply for.
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How does one find out? where these scholarships are and apply for them?
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Look, I found it through serendipity, but I will give a few examples that I'm aware of
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and some of the things that I'm also doing as an outcome.
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So Thiel Fellowship is one, which is a program started by Peter Thiel, where he gives $100 ,000 to 20 people.
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Earlier it used to be age limitation under the age of 20.
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Acceptance rates are lower than Ivy Leagues.
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But there's one condition.
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You have to stop out of college.
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Right?
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If you're in college.
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If you're in college.
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I was not in college, so it was easier.
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And the thesis behind it, the contract's first line says, we never let university interfere with education.
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So education is everywhere, including the WTF podcast.
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But you don't have to go to university for it, but university is one of the sources of it.
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You can also pursue education there.
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So I was a Thiel Fellow, but there are other Thiel Fellows like the founder of Ethereum as a design tool,
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very popular over the years.
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So a bunch of these people who are, exceptionally successful came to the fellowship and everybody has very similar backgrounds, right?
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Young people, they were rebels without a cause, wanted to make a positive difference.
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But coming back, The fellowship is one.
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In India, there's something called the Young India Fellowship.
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Very popular.
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YI Fellowship, I think it's called.
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It's very popular.
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Great.
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Similar?
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Not similar.
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It's very different.
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But again, something that allows young people to be able to pursue their aspirations.
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But this one, I think only invites graduates post undergrad.
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So basically after that, if you want to sort of be a part of the fellowship, I think something very different is Teach for India.
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I think that's another way of making sure.
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Basically, what are the communities where you can find people?
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who are slightly rebellious, who are trying to do something new in life, who are creative, who want to do something new.
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It may have been art for you.
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It may have been being in, you know, the company of Inditex and their, you know, ecosystem.
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So I think fundamentally just finding people around you.
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That's education.
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That's education, right?
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You learn from them and it also allows you to… Get it in any university.
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You don't get it in any university.
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So I think that's the third one.
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I'm doing something with something that's called the Naropa Fellowship.
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It started by the Drukpa of Ladakh.
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Ashish.
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Ashish and this other person, Pramatsana is the person who's involved.
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And I think a similar fellowship.
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And what I have done with them is started a Narupa Ritesh fellowship, where we basically, these are mostly hilly terrain kids gotten out of college, want to do something new.
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So I give them equity free debt free grants, because the THIEL fellowship changed my life.
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So I thought, can I help make differences?
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Same with the Zepto kids.
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They got a 40 lakh grand.
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They built Zepto in the back of that.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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Was that the game changer after Thiel?
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Kiel fellowship was a dream changer.
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I think that changed my life.
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Were you like a great student up until that point?
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like first rank types?
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Not first rank, I think third, fourth, second to fourth rank until 10th grade.
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Same thing.
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Yeah.
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But 11th, 12th grade, not so much.
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No?
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Why?
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Because, so I think until 10th grade, I was in Raigda.
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Post -10th grade, most kids go outside for education, right?
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So my elder three siblings, one went to, I think, other towns in Odisha, bigger towns.
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Because in our town, the only way to get that was one college.
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And that wasn't like most preferred route.
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But parents had some savings because elder three siblings, most of them got one of the degrees through what is called scholarship.
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So parents had some savings.
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So I said, rebel, so I want to go to Kota Rajasthan.
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Kota is much more expensive to send a child to than that of somewhere in Odisha, right?
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Because you have to send three -day trains both sides.
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So you are the Kota factory.
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I'm a part of the Kota factory production.
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So during those two years, I used to sort of… intern in small companies and so on. While of course education.
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Education, I was not the first, second ranker, I was still reasonably good ranker.
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So I was not like I was terrible in terms of impact.
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So parents were generally comfortable.
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So I was not the Kota top kids.
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I was medium.
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So I did all right.
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Shh.
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So, 12th grade, right after 12th grade, That is when I applied for the Thiel Fellowship and became a Thiel Fellow.
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The first time I got a call, so I applied because I heard about Peter Thiranda.
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He applied this.
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I'm not...
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Where is this theory?
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You apply online, online, you apply online.
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And it's just digital online class, digital application.
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No, it's not a class.
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What do you have to submit when you make the application?
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It's just a bunch of questions about what business do you want to build?
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What did you say?
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OYO?
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I didn't call it OYO then, but I, but effectively the idea was the OYO idea, which I proposed.
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The accommodation with some standardization that we can provide.
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Um, I think.
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fundamentally posed those questions, There was no other Asian resident who had become a fellow before me.
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So I gave myself 0 % chance to become a fellow, but I enjoyed the questions.
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I answered them.
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Then interview started.
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So then telephone interviews.
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So the product head of Twitter will get on an interview with you.
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So for a 12th grader to be on an interview with people like those are the big deal.
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And I would do it like on a feature phone of one of the friends.
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Barsati Friends was staying next to me.
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One day I get this call.
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which is you are among the top 40 candidates selected.
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and will fly you to the US and you can pitch and 20 would get selected post the pitch.
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I was like so excited about it.
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The reason was not because I thought I'll become a TL fellow.
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I still give myself 0 % chance.
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It was my first flight and international flight trip I would ever get.
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For free, somebody else was paying for it.
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So I was so happy to go to the US that I thought that life is made.
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So, but again, coming back to how parents are helpful, I got like a few days.
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In that period, mom got the passport made.
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I didn't have a passport.
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Thank you.
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For US visa, I didn't know it was so hard.
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And this is an example of why I believe that genuinely I'm lucky.
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So I was told, biometric canna hai and they'll send a letter, you give the letter, you get the visa.
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And you have to go to Delhi or Bombay?
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No, I was in Delhi only.
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So it was even easier.
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So I got biometric, then next day was the interview.
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Now, interview, I thought that letter -dekhi stamp gets a stamp.
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So I basically was wearing shorts, had my hair all over.
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And I reached the US Embassy.
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And I see people are wearing jackets, ties, have big books, interviewing each other.
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So I thought maybe they have come here for some job interviews, some different work.
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My work is different.
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That's the level of coming to self -confidence.
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Very self -confident.
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I reached the interview lady.
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And as I get closer, if you see the line, USMCA, is from outside.
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So from outside, I thought you were different.
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But in the middle, reaching the counter, we were all in the same counter.
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So I'm starting to feel that it's something different.
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But I was still convincing myself that Peter Thiel has given me a letter.
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In my mind, I thought that, you know, it must, like the visa will be given immediately.
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So the lady asked, what's your purpose of visit to the US?
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So I say, I want to drop out by becoming a Tiel Fellow.
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She listens to dropout and in her mind goes, this guy is going to go to the gas station.
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Next.
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That's his plan.
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And weirdly, he's being honest about it also.
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I only learned this later because then she says, Do you have like, if that's the purpose of visit,
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is there an education also you want to pursue?
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I say, yes, the Yale fellowship can be considered as education.
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So she said, do you have any documentation for it?
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I said, there's this letter.
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So she said, Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like we can give you the visa, but we can't also return you the passport.
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So typically, they reject the visa, they give you back the passport.
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So I said, you can't reject the visa first off.
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And second, my flight is day after tomorrow.
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So you return the passport to me anyway.
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She says, unfortunately, that's not how it works.
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and shuts down the window.
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I came back home, I cried like crazy because I thought
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that US has a chance to go to the US in life, because there was nothing like that.
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and I was learning my heart.
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And before that, I had cold emailed so many people.
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I had cold emailed like 100 people saying that I want to come see your office or so on.
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Like I had cold emailed, God bless him, Tony Shaye of Zappos and so on saying that I'm going to see your office.
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So anyway, long story short, you know, I wrote to the TL fellowship as well, saying that they didn't give me the visa.
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Can you write a letter to them so that there's some credibility?
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They wrote a letter and the embassy was nice to later give me the visa.
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I got into the flight next day.
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Even the flight was a weird thing.
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I had a Lufthansa flight.
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The Lufthansa flight got cancelled.
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The fellowship was nice to book a British Airways right after.
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So I think this fundamentally for me, I feel like this long story is just to say that, Anything could have gone wrong in this.
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The visa could not have come.
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The flight would not have, you know, happened.
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Something could have gone wrong.
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So in life, we forget.
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when we reached to this point, there were probably 200 things that had to go right.
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And if that one thing did not go right, you'd probably be in a very different place.
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Hi, I'm Nikhil Kamath.
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I'd love to know what you thought of the episode.
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Comment, like and subscribe.
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And thank you for watching.

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  • visa /ˈviːzə/ (danh từ) — thị thực, giấy xuất cảnh. A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.
  • rank /ˈɹæŋk/ (danh từ) — hàng. A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
  • passport /ˈpæspɔɹt/ (danh từ) — hộ chiếu, giấy thông hành. An official document normally used for international journeys, which proves the identity and nationality of the person for whom it was issued.
  • rebel /ˈɹɛb.əl/ (danh từ) — người nổi loạn, người phiến loạn. A person who resists an established authority, often violently.
  • founder /ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/ (danh từ) — người sáng lập. One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
  • select /sɪˈlɛkt/ (động từ) — lựa. To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
  • scholarship /ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/ (danh từ) — học bổng. A grant-in-aid to a student.
  • embassy /ˈɛmbəsi/ (danh từ) — tòa đại sứ, đại sứ quán. The function or duty of an ambassador.
  • stamp /stæmp/ (danh từ) — con dấu, ấn. An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
  • sibling /ˈsɪb.lɪŋ/ (danh từ) — anh chị em. A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.
  • helpful /ˈhɛlp.fl̩/ (tính từ) — hay giúp đỡ. Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.
  • telephone /ˈtɛləˌfoʊn/ (danh từ) — điện thoại, dây nói. A telecommunication device which converts data or sounds (usually speech) into electrical signals which are then transmitted to enable two or more people to…
  • resident /ˈɹɛzɪdənt/ (danh từ) — cư dân. A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
  • jacket /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/ (danh từ) — áo vét tông, áo khoác. A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
  • equity /ˈɛk.wɪ.ti/ (danh từ) — sự bình đẳng. Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".

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  • come back (động từ) — trở lại, trở về. To return to a place.
  • get on (động từ) — lên, lên xe. To board or mount (something), especially a vehicle.
  • shut down (động từ) — tắt nguồn. To close, terminate, or end; to stop operating, either permanently or temporarily.

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  • Âm “sh” và “zh”: fellowship /ˈfɛl.ə.ʃɪp/, scholarship /ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/, accommodation /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/, documentation /ˌdɑkjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/, exceptionally /ɪkˈsɛp(t)ʃənəli/
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