Aleksey Vayner, the Yale Grad With the Infamous Video Resume, Is Reportedly Dead (Updated)

Once upon a time in an earlier online era, an aggressively ambitious Yale senior named Alexsey Vayner submitted a rather audacious video resume entitled “Impossible Is Nothing” for an investment-banking job. It was an extraordinarily bold gesture of self-marketing, showcasing the young man lifting 495-pound weights, smacking tennis balls faster than 140-miles an hour, karate-chopping six bricks with a fist, and ballroom-dancing with the fiery intensity of 1000 Ivy League suns. Unfortunately, the clip made its way to the Sun and the rest is, well, here. More »