# Han Wang

> Han Wang is the San Francisco-based co-founder and CEO of Mintlify, a documentation and knowledge platform he built with Cornell collaborator Hahnbee Lee. His path spans early student products, software engineering at Meta, Bain Capital Ventures and repeated developer-tool experiments before Mintlify’s documentation platform took shape in 2022.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Mintlify
- **Organizations:** Mintlify, Cornell Design & Tech Initiative, Meta, Bain Capital Ventures, Pe•ple, FoodFul, Y Combinator
- **Education:** Studied Information Science; did not graduate, according to his LinkedIn profile, Cornell University, Winter 2022 accelerator batch, Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Co-built Mintlify with Hahnbee Lee; its April 2026 announcement reported more than 20,000 companies and over 100 million annual readers., Co-founded Pe•ple, later acquired by Bettermode., Selected with Hahnbee Lee for Forbes 2026 30 Under 30 in AI.

## Career timeline

- **2019** — Co-founded FoodFul, an agricultural technology venture originating at a Cornell hackathon.
- **2019-2020** — Listed as a CoursePlan product manager in the Cornell DTI project repository.
- **2021** — Pe•ple was acquired by Bettermode; his pre-Mintlify career also included Bain Capital Ventures.
- **2021** — Built Figstack with Hahnbee Lee and applied to Y Combinator.
- **2022** — Joined YC Winter 2022; experiments included Doc Writer. The documentation platform emerged in September.
- **2024** — Mintlify announced an $18 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz on September 3.
- **2025** — Named with Hahnbee Lee to the Forbes 2026 30 Under 30 AI list.
- **2026** — Mintlify announced a $45 million Series B at a $500 million valuation on April 14.

## Achievements

- Co-built Mintlify with Hahnbee Lee; its April 2026 announcement reported more than 20,000 companies and over 100 million annual readers.
- Co-founded Pe•ple, later acquired by Bettermode.
- Selected with Hahnbee Lee for Forbes 2026 30 Under 30 in AI.
- His Cornell hackathon team won the Most Market-Ready category before pursuing FoodFul.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Mintlify launched Autopilot in beta on October 20 to draft documentation changes and open pull requests for human review.
- **2026-09** — Listed as a speaker for Rethinking Developer Tools for the Agent Era at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America on September 24.
- **2026-04** — Announced Mintlify’s $45 million Series B, co-led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures, at a $500 million company valuation.

## Links

- Website: https://han.dev/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/handotdev
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/handotdev
- GitHub: https://github.com/handotdev

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Last updated: 2026-10-26