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Forbes·2025-12-05 16:15
At the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Rowan Cheung sat through hours of lectures but says he retained nothing. He dropped out and turned to YouTube to learn technical skills like coding, design and marketing. In 2023, he founded The Rundown AI, a Vancouver-based media company that now has 2 million newsletter subscribers, 1.5 million followers across social media (including Cheung's own accounts) and podcast interviews with tech titans including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft's Satya Nade ...