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My Time at K-Scale | Rui Xu

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Where a group of twenty-somethings (and one forty-year-old dad) tried to make a robot walk.

Thanksgiving, 2024 Lately, a lot of friends — both in the U.S. and back in China — have reached out after seeing the recent K-Scale Labs update. I thought I should write down my side of the story. When I joined K-Scale Labs as COO, people were understandably puzzled. I was in my forties, a father of two, and had already been a GM at Lenovo U.S. — that was eight years ago, back when I thought my path in tech was already set. Not exactly the profile of a startup risk-taker. A Confucian by temperament, I believed in balance and duty, not chaos and burn rate. So why didn’t I just take a safe job a

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