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Humanities PhD dropout raised $92m for AI billing startup Tabs
Ali Hussain left Oxford two months into a doctorate, spent six years learning operations at a 10-person startup, then hired a technical co-founder to cover what he could not do himself.
№ 129 · 23 August 2026
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Ex-principal took hundreds of meetings to raise $63m
Adeel Khan had no Stanford degree, no Google badge and no business plan. He says he had to make MagicSchool AI's user numbers impossible to argue with instead.
№ 38 · 9 August 2026