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The Chinese Founder Atlas - by afra - Concurrent

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A side project I vibe-coded to map Chinese tech founders by generation, geography, and clan

I want to share a project I built earlier this month: The Chinese Founder Atlas—which I vibe-coded with Claude.1 This atlas is meant to help people become more familiar with China’s tech world—its culture and the people in it. I’m quite pleased with how it turned out, though building it also gave me a humbling reminder of what Alfred Korzybski said that, the map is not the territory, and any act of simplification smuggles in its own bias. Consider this an ongoing, heuristic project rather than anything definitive. I’ll try to keep revising it, and I’d love to hear what you think. Click…

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