Servus, my job is to eat execution risk 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. Sold some businesses and built software for the Austrian Military at age 18. Did lots of side-quests. (Linkedin)

What I write:

• UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted.

• How invisible family pacts forge unstoppable founders.

• Fixing Europe's broken patent system.

• + a few controversial unpublished thoughts

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

• Haize (LLM Safety)

• Iconic (AI Gaming)

• Swish (Consumer Robots)

• Tau (AI for Robots)

• Raven (AR Glasses)

• Dirac (Software for Hardware)

• Aethero (Space Computers)

• Icarus (Space Robots)

• Lilac (Voice AI)

• RMFG (API-first factory)

• Isembard (Modular Manufacturing)

• Praxis (A City, literally)

• Strala (AI Claims)

• Koko Xs Fund (Deep Tech)

• Entropy Industrial Capital (EU Critical Industries)

• And many more…

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