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The greatest benefit of making high-reaching personal connections, Kinshuk believes, is not the logistical clearance or power they can provide--instead, it is the personal transformation that occurs as a result of knowing people at the top. The greatest thing that Kinshuk says came of his early connections and his work with the UIF was the breaking of his own inhibition: regular contact with these changemakers helped him realize how similar he was to other ambitious people, and how possible his audacious projects actually were. He acknowledges that this inhibition never truly goes away: at the time of this interview, Kinshuk was mulling over how to ask a top professor at MIT for a favor in further developing his company.