Servus, my job is getting bubble tea etc 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. Founded a last-mile delivery startup at age 17. Built software for the Austrian Military at age 18. Helped create a drink called g spot for the Netflix show "Sex Education" (series A led by Heineken). Did food PE, other white-collar stuff and tons of random projects. (Linkedin)

Rarely writing $10-100k checks into pre-seed funds and startups, warm intros only:

• Iconic (AI Gaming)

• Haize (LLM Safety)

• Swish Robotics (Food Robotics)

• Entropy Industrial Capital (European Critical Industries)

• Calm/Storm Ventures (Austrian Founders)

• Tau Robotics (General AI for Robots)

• RAVN (AR Glasses)

• Praxis (Literally a City)

• Dirac (Software for Hardware)

• Lilac Labs (Voice AI)

• RMFG (API-first factory)

• Vuecason (Metal 3D Printing)

• Koko Xsu Fund (Deep Tech)

What I write:

• UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted.

• How invisible family pacts forge unstoppable founders.

• + a few controversial unpublished thoughts

My brain thinks about:

• post-automation-era Economics

• narrative distillation

• rapid empirical engineering

I like:

• youtube documentaries

• classical piano & violin

• stir frying

Reach me on twitter: @joseflchen

PS. my parents are still mad I didn't get into Oxbridge