Latitude: How Stanislas Maximin Builds Rockets at 26 With No Degree
How Stanislas Maximin dropped out of business school at 20, founded Latitude, and is now building a 50-launch-per-year rocket factory in France.
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How Stanislas Maximin dropped out of business school at 20, founded Latitude, and is now building a 50-launch-per-year rocket factory in France.
How Raúl Torres co-founded PLD Space in Elche, launched Europe's first private rocket, and raised $350 million to challenge SpaceX from Spain.

How Daniel Lereya went from IBM engineer to monday.com CPTO, driving the Work OS past $1 billion ARR and leading its AI transformation in 2026.

How Andrew Gazdecki turned a broken exit experience into Acquire.com, the startup marketplace with $500 million in deals across 100+ countries.

How Drew Houston built Dropbox from a forgotten USB drive into a $10 billion cloud storage giant serving 700 million registered users worldwide.

How Hayden Adams built Uniswap, the decentralized exchange that processed over $3 trillion in trading volume and redefined crypto trading forever.

How Jensen Huang co-founded NVIDIA at a Denny's, invented the GPU, bet everything on CUDA, and built a $4.3 trillion AI empire.

How Demis Hassabis built DeepMind, solved protein folding with AlphaFold, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and now leads Google DeepMind.

How Shane Curran won Ireland's top science prize at 16, dropped out of college, and built Evervault into a $46 million encryption infrastructure company.

How Henrique Dubugras built his first startup at 14, sold it for $150 million at 18, and co-founded Brex, the $12 billion corporate card for startups.

How Alexandr Wang dropped out of MIT at 19 to build Scale AI, the data labeling giant now worth $14 billion powering defense and Big Tech.
