🔮About

Born and raised in Taiwan, now based in London. Started in VC, moved into startups, and by nature I break things, question everything, and bring probably too much energy to both. Building toward something of my own — someday soon.

I wasn't a good kid by Taiwan's standards.

I got good grades, but I hated the education system that produced them. Taiwan's education is a machine optimised for compliance: memorise, repeat, rank. I played the game well enough, but I never believed in it. I broke rules, asked inconvenient questions, and found the most interesting things always happened outside the classroom.

I got into National Taiwan University, the best university in Taiwan, to study Finance. I thought university would be different. It wasn't. More lectures, more rote learning, more teaching to the test. I was disappointed again.

So I stopped waiting for the curriculum to teach me something useful and started building my own.

(I wrote an article about the broken education system in Taiwan: link)

I threw myself into everything outside class: student organisations, competitions, side projects. I interned at startups, a VC fund, and a PE firm. I co-founded a small e-commerce business with friends. I was trying to find the thing that felt real.

What I noticed in Finance, especially watching friends who went into banking and PE, was that most of them hated their jobs. Smart, capable people, grinding through work they didn't believe in, telling themselves it would be worth it later. I didn't want that to be me.

I don't think work has to be a sacrifice. You can choose what you do with your time, and that choice compounds over a lifetime. Most people just never let themselves believe that.

The VC experience changed my direction. Every week I met founders building new things, making bets on the future, creating something from nothing. The more I saw, the clearer it became: I wanted to be on that side of the table. Not evaluating ideas. Building them.

Naval has a line I keep coming back to: where you live is one of the most important decisions you'll make.

Taiwan is a great place. But the ceiling is visible. The best startups aren't here. The density of ambitious people building hard things is elsewhere. So I decided to move.

I didn't want to pay for a master's degree just to earn the right to work somewhere. A university can give you a local network, but you can build that yourself if you're willing to do the work. I applied for the UK Youth Mobility Scheme visa, got it, and started building from scratch.

While I was still in Taipei, I did 30+ cold calls and online coffees with people in the UK startup ecosystem: operators, founders, investors. I was learning the landscape and building signal before I ever landed. Two months later, I had a job offer. I moved to London.

I'm now working as a Founder Associate at an early-stage AI startup. Learning fast, building things, staying close to the edge.

Further reading: → First Ten Days in London

Things I care about but genuinely don't know how to solve:

I want to build a company. Not necessarily in any specific industry, but as the highest-leverage way I know to become a net contributor to society.

AI has compressed the barrier to starting something meaningful. That matters to me.

So does this: Taiwan is known for chips and factories, not for software that goes global. I think that can change. I want to be part of proving it.

If any of this resonates, or you're working on something interesting. Let’s connect!