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Edwin Chen
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Artificial intelligence
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- New York, New York
Biography
Edwin Chen is the CEO of Surge AI, which he founded in 2020 to help companies label data to train AI.
Surge generated $1.2 billion in 2024 revenue from customers like Google and AI lab Anthropic.
Notably, Surge claims it has not yet raised any outside funding; Chen owns an estimated 75% of the company.
Before founding Surge, the Florida native worked for Twitter, Google, Facebook and Peter Thiel's hedge fund Clarium.
Chen attended MIT, where he studied math, computer science and linguistics.
About
At MIT, Chen researched how to decode an Incan language expressed via knots tied in rope.