Raeez Lorgat is a South African mathematician, physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. He is known for dropping out of MIT in his first year of undergraduate study to cofound the payment processing technology company Stripe with Patrick and John Collison, now holding a 60B market cap; he also holds a research fellowship in high energy physics at the perimeter institute for theoretical physics in Waterloo, Canada, where he focuses on foundational questions in particle physics and quantum gravity. Previously he was the computer science grand award winner of the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, and winner of the Eskom Expo for young scientists at the age of fifteen. Alumnus of many national and international science and informatics olympiads, he has given talks ranging from fundamental physics, to the impact of government policy in educating the developing world. At age sixteen, NASA and MIT’s Lincoln labs honored Raeez with the naming of Minor planet 23122 Lorgat. Raeez holds numerous undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics and computer science from MIT. He is the founder and acting CEO of Mass, an AI powered bank and financial technology company headquartered in NYC, sits on the board of a multi billion dollar asset management Peregrine Digital, and sits on the board of an entrepreneurship community alongside Marc Randolph, co-founder and first CEO of Netflix.