Anwar Mohamud — no degree required

Stanford University

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, on the recommendation of the Faculty of the School of Engineering, has conferred upon

Anwar Mohamud

the degree of

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

with all the rights, privileges and honors thereunto appertaining.
Given at Stanford, California, this thirtieth day of February,
in the year two thousand twenty-six.

i was never good at sports.

so i went on the computer instead. and i got good. like, really good.

i spent my whole childhood online. nobody taught me anything. i just kept figuring things out.

why i put that clip first

it's basically my story.

mark zuckerberg gets up and walks out of class, and he still gets the answer right on his way out. that was me. i never liked school. i felt too smart for it, and i still don't understand why you need a degree.

exhibit a

school and i never worked out.

i was bad at sports and bored everywhere else.

the computer was the only thing that could keep up with me.

Report cardAnwar Mohamud

math	A	did not show any work
history	C	was on the computer
computer class	A+	fixed the teacher's computer
attendance	B	physically, yes
gym	F	asked to stay inside

teacher's comment: very bright. always on a computer. we are concerned.

exhibit b

i spent my whole childhood online.

other kids had practice after school. i had the internet.

i don't regret one minute of it.

Screen time, daily average

15h 58m

up from last year. up from every year.

browser9h 12m
code4h 41m
youtube tutorials2h 05m
outside0m
sportsapp not found

exhibit c

nobody taught me. i just figured it out.

every time something stopped working, i worked out why.

that's still the whole job.

mom

11:02 pm

dinner is ready

anwar

2:15 am

why is your light on

you have school

i'm learning

learning WHAT

how the internet works

i turned the wifi off. go to bed

2:31 am

i hacked the router. wifi's back on

exhibit d

code it, hack it, build it, debug it.

if you can do it on a computer, i can do it on a computer.

and yes, i only hack my own stuff. i'm not trying to go to jail.

search history, last 10 years

how to make a website
how do hackers get in
how to hack wifi
how to hack MY OWN wifi
is it illegal if it's my own wifi
how to build jarvis
why doesn't my code work
why does my code work
do you really need a degree

live

i hit record at 3am so you can watch.

api/analyze/route.tslib/rate-limit.tshooks/use-voice.ts

REC 00:00

1import { streamText } from "ai";

2import { z } from "zod";

4const Body = z.object({ contract: z.string().min(50).max(200_000) });

6export async function POST(req: Request) {

7 const parsed = Body.safeParse(await req.json());

8 if (!parsed.success) {

9 return Response.json({ error: "contract too short" }, { status: 400 });

10 }

12 const result = streamText({

13 model: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-5",

14 system: "Flag anything in this contract a normal person should worry about.",

15 prompt: parsed.data.contract,

16 });

18 return result.toTextStreamResponse();

19}

hacking

do you want to see how i hack?

here's a video.

exhibit e

i learned why markets move the fun way.

i trade memecoins, and they taught me what school never could.

prices don't move because of numbers. they move because of people and culture.

$ANWAR / SOL

5m candles. made-up coin, real feelings.

mcap: $96K
volume: $4.1M
holders: 2,318
24h: -91.2%

i boughti told everyonei am a geniusi did not selli am not a genius

exhibit f

i did dropshipping too, obviously.

i sold things online without ever touching a box.

you learn fast what makes a stranger pull out their card.

order placed
left the warehouse, we think
somewhere in the ocean
customer asking where it is
customer asking again
delivered. five stars.

and honestly

i did everything you can think of.

if you can do it on a computer, i've probably tried it.

coding

i can make a computer do what i want.

hacking

i find the way in that nobody noticed.

building

apps, websites, tools. idea today, working tomorrow.

debugging

when something's broken and nobody knows why, i find out why.

i can vibe code gta 6 in 5 days using claude code.

jarvis

a computer you can just talk to. i'm building mine.

things i made

they're real. go click them.

Before You Sign

ai that reads the contract, because nobody actually reads before clicking i agree.

ai
legal

A talking Yeti

chatboxes have no soul, so i gave an ai a voice and a cute body any website can embed.

voice ai
embed

Indie Shark Tank

pitch your startup and get roasted by ai sharks modelled on real indie hackers.

ai
next.js

Official transcript

Anwar Mohamud

PE 101	sports	F
ANW 101	being online my whole childhood	A+
ANW 201	breaking in and locking up	A
ANW 301	ai, and my own jarvis	A
ANW 401	dropshipping	B+
ANW 501	why prices really move	A

tuition paid: $0
graded by: me
degree conferred: no

still no degree.

the chest

everything i know is in here.

every trick, every late night, my whole brain. it's locked. the code is 6 digits and it isn't written anywhere. it floats in the dust in the first half of this page, one number at a time, top to bottom. go back and catch them.