New Delhi, Dec. 30 -- Shubham Goel co-founded Affinity with his partner Ray Zhou after they both graduated early from the prestigious Stanford University. His company is now worth more than half a billion dollars.

In a recent quick, roadside interview Goel told social media influencer Viraj Ala about the one piece of advice that he did not learn at Stanford, but benefitted from in life.

And it has an algebra connection. "Slope is always more important than the Y intercept," Goel said.

He said that while he indeed was talking about algebra, the lessons apply to life.

"If you plot two lines on a graph, the reality is that the line with the higher slope is almost always going to overtake the line, regardless of where they start on the gr...