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Aaron Wang
Aaron Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Alex (formerly Apriora), a San Francisco AI company whose autonomous recruiter, also named Alex, runs thousands of phone and video interviews a day for Fortune 100s, Big Four accounting firms, and staffing agencies. A Brown triple major who went from a quant trading desk and Facebook AI Research to a Y Combinator startup, Wang bet that a 10-minute conversation reveals more than any LinkedIn profile, then bought the alex.com domain for more than $500K to prove it. The company raised a $17M Series A led by Peak XV Partners in September 2025.
The CEO who spent $500,000 on a first name
Aaron Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Alex (alex.com), the AI recruiter that runs autonomous phone screens and video interviews at scale. He started the company as Apriora in 2023 with John Rytel, then paid more than half a million dollars for the alex.com domain and renamed both the product and the company after its AI agent. A Brown University graduate in computer science, applied math, and economics, Wang previously worked at Facebook AI Research and as a quantitative analyst at a hedge fund. Alex conducts thousands of interviews a day for Fortune 100 firms, banks, restaurant chains, and Big 4 accounting firms, and has raised roughly $20 million, including a $17 million Series A led by Peak XV Partners.