Fast Com­pany has a charm­ing video inter­view of Smule cofounder Ge Wang, who earned his doc­tor­ate in com­puter sci­ence from Prince­ton in 2008. Ge talks about grow­ing up in Bei­jing lis­ten­ing to West­ern clas­si­cal music taped from the radio by his grand­fa­ther, about learn­ing to play the accor­dian, and about how, at age 14, music hit him “squarely in the chest.”

Here is another great video inter­view of Ge.