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Josef Chen

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Servus, my job is to eat execution risk for my team that builds robots and creates the world's most efficient restaurant chains at KAIKAKU. Born and raised in Austria, currently cooking in London. Prev. peeling potatoes at my parent's Chinese restaurant since age 6. Created one of the world's first bitcoin faucets at age 13 (>150k users). Intern #1 at Bitpanda, Austria's first unicorn. Sold some businesses and built software for the Austrian Military at age 18. Did lots of side-quests. (Linkedin) What I write: UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted. How invisible family pacts forge unstoppable founders. Fixing Europe's broken patent system. Alone Together: Disconnection Is Our Generation’s Black Death + a few controversial unpublished thoughts (blog) Rarely writing $10-100k checks into pre-seed funds and startups, warm intros only: Haize (LLM Safety) Iconic (AI Gaming) Swish (Consumer Robots) Tau (AI for Robots) Raven (AR Glasses) Dirac (Software for Hardware) Aethero (Space Comput

Josef Chen Cooking foundational AI and robots for food at KAIKAKU . Born and raised in Austria, currently in London. Peeled potatoes at my parents’ restaurant since age 6. Then built one of the world’s first bitcoin faucets at age 13 with 150k daily users, which somehow led to leading software in the Austrian military. Eventually the food won. Research Papers on food embeddings, physical AI, and when combining language models actually helps. The Epicure work trained ingredient embeddings on 4.14 million recipes; the sketch below is a hand-placed miniature of that map. Drag it around. The dashe

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