
Before joining HeyGen, Edward Wang moved from trading models to medical AI, classrooms, startup experiments and Microsoft. The pattern is less a straight career ladder than a series of working prototypes.

He began by auditing accounts receivable, taught himself to code through games, and arrived at Monk with an unusually useful question: how do you automate money without losing the evidence?

Two dropped computer-science classes, three bootcamp interviews and more than 140 job interviews taught Johnny Chen a useful operating system: keep moving, build the thing, and aim automation at work people already dread.