For over a year, Trojan Tech Solutions sat dormant with nobody in it.
Then Matthew Kim graduated, on his way to McKinsey, and handed the whole thing to Caleb Newton and Tyler Larsen. It used to build IT solutions for companies, and they turned it into a club that builds AI.
So they started over, with Caleb and Tyler as co-presidents and Emily Zhao on design. They built a cabinet, and every person on it pulled in people from their own major.
They didn't do it alone. Chris Swain, who teaches at the Iovine and Young Academy, is the faculty advisor, and the mentors are people you'd actually get to learn from, at McKinsey, Reddit, Google, Stanford and Mixbook.
And the people who started here went on to places like these, from Reddit and Bloomberg to Citi and Jefferies.
About three months later, it had a real roster.