Fuzhounese American. First-gen. Raised by a single immigrant mom in Chinatown, New York. We moved around a lot but I spent most of my time in Queens.

My mom ran QQ Cafe on East Broadway. I was washing dishes there when I was eight. By ten I was selling snacks and candy in middle school. By fifteen I was reselling sneakers. I always found a way to make money. That part never turned off.

I was also a gaming addict. League of Legends. Minecraft. I'd skip class to play. I climbed to the top of the leaderboard and was ready to go full-time pro. But I made the decision to stop. Walked away from gaming and went to Northeastern instead. First in my family to go to college.

I'm not school smart. I failed calculus. Failed statistics. Was in ESL until eleventh grade. Never took the SAT. Never cared to listen in class. But I've always been obsessed with figuring things out on my own terms.

At Northeastern I studied finance. Oakland campus first, then Boston. I was on the traditional investment banking route. Hated every second of it. I was working three on-campus jobs, running multiple clubs, trying to fill the gap between what school was teaching me and what I actually wanted to learn. Then an upperclassman named Kasey who was in a YC batch introduced me to the startup ecosystem. Everything changed. He told me about San Francisco. Introduced me to other YC W25 founders. That was the first door.

I visited CalHacks and TreeHacks and watched hundreds of young people build cool stuff in a weekend. Came back and organized PawHacks — Northeastern Oakland's first hackathon. That feeling never left me.

Moved to the Silicon Valley campus in San Jose. Sent 536 cold emails to startups looking for growth roles. Got rejected from every investment banking internship I applied to. Didn't care. One of those cold emails turned into an internship at Parable, investing alongside Anne Lee Skates.

Every opportunity I've gotten came from being lucky, being kind, and building great relationships with the people around me.

I moved to San Francisco with nothing lined up. Met Regina at ThirdLayer who let me crash on her couch. Because of that I met more incredible people and got into AI Startup School. While I was at Parable I networkmaxxed. Became close with Henry and Jef over Venture. Hosted a poker night that changed my life with Chad Byers and Alfred Lin. Met some incredible young engineers at xAI, OpenAI, Cognition, the TreeHacks crew. Through them I kept meeting more people. Every connection led to the next one.

Through Anne I landed an internship at Delphi. After one month they gave me a full-time offer. I was leading consumer growth. Wrote my first angel check. Dropped out of Northeastern for good.

I was back in NYC for Thanksgiving, grabbing breakfast with Christina and Andrew. That morning they connected me to Greg. That meeting got me a role at xAI.

Now I'm here. Advancing humanity.

I'm a huge advocate for youth talent. I angel invest in out-of-distribution founders — young people most investors pass on because their path doesn't look traditional. The kid who dropped out. The one who taught themselves everything. The one whose resume doesn't make sense yet but whose intensity is undeniable. I know what that looks like because I lived it.

I build community. I host poker nights and board game nights for young people in SF. I tell stories. I write essays on X.

Short term, I want to retire my mom. Long term, I want to serve the top 1% of humanity. I believe in the individuals around me. I want to help them and push them to the next level. That's the work.

Chinatown kid chasing the American Dream.