In 2020, a lost transcript inspired college student Zain Zaidi to start the Silicon Valley data company TransCrypts.
The now 24-year-old entrepreneur discussed his journey co-founding the multi-million-dollar firm and what it’s like being an entrepreneur, in a recent episode of EpochTV’s “Bay Area Innovators” program.
While applying to Harvard University graduate school, Zaidi had his undergraduate school, San Jose State University, send in his official transcript. However, Harvard never received it.
“It got me thinking,” he said. “After spending four years and tens of thousands of dollars in tuition getting an electrical engineering degree, why am I reliant on my school to prove that I actually graduated?”…