About Me

I work at the intersection of entrepreneurship, early-stage investing, and education.  I’m a former founder who dropped out to build my first company, which was later acquired.

I’ve lived and studied across China and the U.S.—over a decade in the U.S., and roughly twenty years in China.

For the past decade I’ve been exploring one question from different angles: how do exceptional young people discover what they’re capable of, and start building earlier?

The Journey

I started as a student founder, dropped out to build my first company, raised multiple rounds, and later exited through acquisition. That early chapter led to recognition such as Forbes 30 Under 30—but more importantly, it shaped how I think about building from zero.

I was on the founding team of YC China, working with Sam Altman and Qi Lu in its earliest phase. About a year later, Sam returned to the U.S. to focus full-time on OpenAI, and we continued independently as MiraclePlus. Sam later noted that the intern-based system I built at YC China was, for young people learning entrepreneurship, more effective than YC’s Startup School.

Being there at that moment mattered. I watched OpenAI move from a controversial idea to a credible lab, and eventually into a force reshaping how the world thinks about intelligence, work, and human potential. That experience left a lasting mark on how I think about non-consensus bets, early conviction, and what it actually looks like when something truly new begins.

By the Numbers

During this period, I was involved in managing over USD 450 million in early-stage capital. In practice, this meant:

• Evaluated 160,000+ applications.

• Participated in 670+ early-stage investments across AI, biotech, robotics, hard tech, and consumer.

• Helped build a 7,000+ member intern sourcing engine to discover young builders at scale.

The Thesis

I taught and built hands-on entrepreneurship programs at leading universities across China and Asia, including Tsinghua and Peking University, and toured over 100 campuses—working with thousands of young people at the moment they first began to build.

After leaving MiraclePlus, I spent three months traveling across 40 top universities in the U.S. including every Ivy League school, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, and CMU. In the same period, I invested in 30 young founders—not to chase speed, but to back people who were already moving.

I’ve learned that at the earliest stage, what matters most isn’t polish or credentials, but high agency—how someone moves when no one is watching.

What’s Next

Today I invest as a personal angel and I’m building the next chapter: an AI-native entrepreneurship platform for young builders (14–22). No slides. No dogma. Real projects, long-term mentorship, AI-native tools, and a community designed for compounding growth.

Underneath this is a broader question I’m exploring: how early-stage entrepreneurship should be designed for this generation. Past models created enormous value, but many were built for a different era. I’m interested in systems that can: support people earlier, unlock outsized impact with fewer resources, and work globally by default.

Whether that means backing many builders, or a much smaller number whose work matters over decades, is still an open question—but I know I don’t want to be a conventional investor.

Let’s Connect

If you’re building something others don’t understand yet—or you’re a young founder, researcher, or educator rethinking how people learn and build—I’m always open to a short, high-signal conversation.

I read everything, though I can’t reply to every message. The conversations I tend to engage in most often come from:

• People building early, before things look obvious

• Researchers or students thinking seriously about starting

• Collaborators working on education, systems, or long-term questions

If that sounds like you, feel free to write.

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