Alexandr Wang — who became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at 24 — is now, at 28, running one of the most ambitious AI efforts in Silicon Valley. In his first 60 days at Meta , he built a 100-person lab he described to TBPN hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hayes as “smaller and more talent dense than any of the other labs.”

His goal: nothing less than superintelligence.

Wang, with his aerial view of the industry, has advice for kids, especially those in Gen Alpha now entering middle school: Forget gaming, sports, or traditional after-school hobbies.

“If you are like 13 years old, you should spend all of your time vibe coding,” he said in his recent TBPN interview. “That’s how you should live your life.”

A generational moment

For Wang, the reasoning is simple. Every engineer,

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