Ryan Dahl ¶

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Early life and education ¶

Dahl (born in 1981) grew up in San Diego, California.

His mother got him an Apple IIc when he was six years old, one of his first experiences with technology. Ryan attended a community college in San Diego and later transferred into UC San Diego where he studied mathematics. He went on to attend grad school for Mathematics at the University of Rochester where he studied algebraic topology, which he once found “very abstract and beautiful” for a couple of years but later got bored of it because “it was not so applicable to real life.”

Once he realized that he did not want to be a mathematician for the rest of his life, he dropped out of the PhD program and bought a one-way ticket to South America and lived there for a year, where he found a job as a web developer.

He worked on a Ruby on Rails website for a snowboard company