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Episode: MIT Graduate, Alex Backer - 101 Clues to a Happy Life
Description: A National Champion of Informatics, Alex holds a degree in Biology and Economics from MIT, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems and Biology from the California Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Dean’s award for ‘great contributions and outstanding qualities of Leadership and Responsibility’.
He has held
positions at McKinsey & Co., the Center for Computation, Computers, Information and Mathematics of Sandia National Labs, and Caltech. Alex conceived QLess while standing in line.
Prior to starting QLess, Alex was also the founder of a pioneer of search engine marketing technology that has booste...