The speaker recalls that Ege, then a computer science undergraduate in Ankara, knew more about economics and major trends in economic growth and economic history than almost any of the speaker's university peers.

“and I was occasionally having conversations with Egge, and I was like,”

“this guy knows a lot more about economics, and he's, at the time, he was a computer science undergrad in Ankara, and he knows more about economics.”

“And about, you know, these big trends in economic growth and economic history than almost any of my peers at university.”