Sam Udotong is Co-founder and CTO at Fireflies.ai. This quintessentially scrappy founder turned down Harvard Business School to build a startup while living below the poverty line. Today Udotong manages a team that operates out of 3 continents and raised $5 million in seed funding in late 2019. He’s a full-stack engineer and frequent guest lecturer for Stanford’s introductory AI classes. Since college, when he created and trained autonomous drones as president of MIT’s UAV team, he gets excited about deploying deep learning in large scale projects. At MIT he studied computer science and aerospace engineering.