[giacomoforte]

She's hardly the average person, is she? High IQ enough to get a job at Jane Street and then constantly swimming in these elite networks at Stanford, Jane Street and whatever that weird EA thing is supposed to be.

If you do a BSc in Math in Europe and you have some olympiad creds, you have a good shot of joining Optiver or similar, and go from there.

[alexey-salmin]

I know, it's not meant to be a deep observation. Rather the "some start drinking at 21 while others already quit by then" kind of situation.