Josef Chen

Josef Chen

Josef Chen

Servus, my job is eating 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:


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


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