Calvin Chen

I'm working on Proximal to help frontier labs train the best AI coding agents.

I previously built two e-commerce software startups and did a short stint at Goldman Sachs crunching numbers. I bootstrapped one of my startups to $1.5M ARR and sold it for $9M.

I studied business and CS at USC, before dropping out for Y-Combinator. During YC, I spent some time tinkering with diffusion models and trained a SOTA diffusion model for virtual try on.

If I'm not working, I read, write, build things, and meet other interesting people. If that's you, say hi.