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Wendy Chen and the half-life of a good decision
Wendy Chen went from quantitative trading to angel investing to building Omnistream. Her next calculation concerns something closer to home: what belongs on the shelf of your local shop.
Maxim Shen and the machinery behind a price
From quantitative trading to founding Anti Capital, Maxim Shen has worked on the systems that help markets function. His next chapter connects fast execution, usable market data, and the less glamorous business of keeping the books.
Edward Wang Learned to Build Before the Camera Arrived
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.
Chase Lochmiller Built His Company Where the Power Was
Before AI needed gigawatts, Chase Lochmiller learned to look for energy nobody else could use. The former quant and Everest climber turned that instinct into Crusoe - a company built around the stubborn physical limits of computing.
Dillon Rolnick
Dillon Rolnick is the chief executive of Nous Research, an applied AI lab building open-source, human-centric language models and the decentralized Psyche training network. A Vanderbilt graduate who came up through quantitative FX trading at Effex Capital and founded the litigation-claims firm Crysknife Capital, he moved from finance into AI research leadership, helping steer Nous through a Paradigm-led $50M Series A and, by 2026, a reported $75M round near a $1.5B valuation. His focus is proving that world-class models can be trained openly and over the internet rather than behind the walls of a few large labs.
Andres Carranza
Andres Carranza is the co-founder and CEO of Luzid, a San Francisco startup building David, an agentic AI copilot that orchestrates SAP and Salesforce implementations. A Stanford dropout and former AI researcher, he interned at NASA, Harvard, MIT and was the youngest quantitative trader in Two Sigma's history before leaving school to build a company that aims to turn months-long enterprise software rollouts into something closer to a software update.
Harry Qi
Harry Qi is the co-founder and CEO of Motion (usemotion.com), an AI-native productivity company building an 'agentic work suite' of AI employees that schedule calendars, run sales and support, and manage projects for knowledge workers and small businesses. At 23 he walked away from a roughly $1-million-a-year quant trading job at Optiver to start the company in 2019 with two friends, took it through Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch after a Demo Day where 150 investors said no, and rebuilt it into an AI platform that grew from $0 to more than $10M ARR in its B2B agent bundle within months of a May 2025 launch. In September 2025 Motion raised a 5x-oversubscribed $38M Series C at a $550M post-money valuation.