1994, born in Shanghai, China.

2013, pursued a B.S. degree in computer science at Harbin Institute of Technology; founded IO design group.

2015, dropped out.

2015, became a software engineer at Teambition. Loved it.

2015, left Teambition; went to the United States.

2015, applied to UC Berkeley while living at Berkeley Student Cooperative.

2016, declined by UC Berkeley; tried again.

2017, served as house president at Berkeley Student Cooperative.

2017, worked as a lab assistant at UC Berkeley’s notorious data structure course, CS 61B.

2017, declined by UC Berkeley again; went to UCLA instead pursuing a degree in math.

2018, went to Los Angeles; haunted by how rich everybody was.

2019, left Los Angeles.

2019, interned at Google in Mountain View, CA.

2019, finished my UCLA senior year while auditing at Stanford.

2020, working full time at Google in Mountain View, CA.

2020, started mavericks.fm, a podcast where I talk with folks with unique experiences from tech, art and academia.

2021, studying part-time at Stanford.

2022, Found a startup to empower others.

2024, Enrolled in Stanford GSB.