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Calvin Chen

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I’m currently building Fetchr, an AI-powered personal shopper that learns about your style, budget, and size to deliver clothes right to your door. I've previously built companies in e-commerce software for businesses and consumers, scaling to $1.5M ARR and exiting for $9M while in high-school. I enjoy learning to be a better engineer, designer and thinker. I also like to study the history and biographies of cool people who have built things. I'm based in SF and like to run, play poker, and eat good food. Reach out if you want to chat, you can usually find me on Twitter. A year and a half of failing, learning and everything in-between. Building products should be like creating art. Thoughts on a year of pivoting. Press ⌘ J to open the command menu

I'm working on Proximal to help bring superhuman coding agents to the world. Our founding team includes early engineers and researchers from Cursor and Prime Intellect, and second-time exited founders. If the problem of how to train the best coding agents is interesting to you, we're hiring! We are backed by top funds and angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, Thinking Machines, xAI, Meta Superintelligence, Cursor and Cognition. 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…

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