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Arinze
Obiezue

▲building within the orbits of ai, culture, and education

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Welcome to my digital living room. This is where I share some of what I'm building, reading, listening to, and thinking about. Pull up a chair — look around. Everything here, like me, is a work in progress.

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About

A brief on me and what I care about

❋I'm Arinze: a builder, writer, designer, and ATLA nerd working within the orbit of AI, culture, and education. I write a Substack on adulting in the age of AI and late-stage capitalism as I'm deeply curious about how tech is reshaping how we learn, connect, and create.

In the past:

•I self-taught the piano just so I could live out my John Legend dream of singing an original song while playing the keyboard on a TEDx stage

•Worked across five industries before graduating undergrad because I couldn't seem to pick a lane; some things don't change
•While an intern at Meta, I published a 3000-word internal memo on strategies for hiring more underrepresented minorities that got executive buy-in from as high up as Zuck's lieutenants
•Attended 3 Model UN conferences on two continents over the span of 2 years before I turned 18 cos I thought I wanted to be a diplomat
•I ended up the first student from an African university to get admitted to the 2+2 deferred MBA programs at both Stanford & Harvard business schools even though I almost never applied

Whatever my life's work becomes, it is dedicated to my mum, my sister, my friends, and my teachers who nurtured my character and made my wildest dreams feel possible.

AIEducationMediaCultureStartups

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My Homes

The places that raised me

Aba

Nigeria

1998–2015

Grand Baie

Mauritius

2016–2020

Enugu

Nigeria

2020–2020

London

2020–2021

Accra

Ghana

2021–2022

Nairobi

Kenya

2022–2024

Lagos

Nigeria

2024

Stanford

USA

2024–present

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My Career

The path I'm walking

2015–2020

African Leadership University

Inaugural Class · BSc Business Management

School

— Valedictorian —

2020–2021

EarlyAdmit

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer

Work

— Acquired —

2021–2022

Schwarzman Scholars

Master's, Global Affairs (AI Policy) • Tsinghua University

School

2022–present

Kenga Media

Founder, CEO & Publisher

Work

2022–2024

Future Africa

Investment Team

Work

2024–2026

Stanford GSB

MBA

School

2026

Anthropic

Program Manager

Incoming

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My Writing

Some ideas and experiences I made time to flesh out

AI x Philosophy

Learning Better By Being Selectively Ignorant: How learning less is a way to learn more

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Identity

Earning the Six Stripes on My Rainbow: My queer journey and how coming out saved my life

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Education

Getting into the 2+2 Deferred MBA Programs at Harvard and Stanford

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My Creations

A portfolio of things I've built with friends

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Co-founder2025 • Active

Claude@Stanford

Founded and led Anthropic's largest community of students in the US building with Claude's suite of AI products.

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Founder2022 • Hiatus

Sunday High Table — SHiT

A weekly Sunday salon in Nairobi convening friends from diverse professions to discuss philosophy, culture, and our everyday lives.

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Co-Founder & Publisher2022 • Hiatus

Kenga Media

Built a digital and print publication covering stories on Africa's Gen Z culture and insights and crafting campaigns for youth-led startups.

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Co-Founder2020 • Acquired

EarlyAdmit

Co-founded a coaching platform helping students from underrepresented minority backgrounds get into top grad programs.

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Co-founder2019 • Inactive

Designish

A learning community for Africans and diasporans looking to build careers in UX: product design, content design, and user research.

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Founder2019 • Active

PRiDE+

The student-run society at the African Leadership University creating safe spaces for queer students and allies across the Rwanda and Mauritius campuses.

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