Hi! I'm exploring AI in New York, with a focus on making AI something the public shapes, not just uses. I'm also interested in how robotics becomes accessible to the general public, how it scales, and how humans and machines interact.
Before this I was at Goldman Sachs in the Global Industrials Group, covering industrial tech and advising Fortune 500 companies on $8B in M&A transactions. It taught me how to work fast, under pressure, with direct exposure to enterprise clients.
I studied economics and art history at Harvard. While there I built Dion Academy, a college admissions consulting business serving students across the US and China, and started making bilingual content about admissions, AI, and building things. I also help small businesses with hands-on AI transformation on the side.
108 companies across the six stages of robot learning, a live research feed, funding signals, and a primer on the stack.
An AI thought partner built around seeing yourself clearly rather than getting more done. Most consumer AI optimizes for productivity; Daisy is built on the idea that the more durable product is one that reflects you back to yourself. It uses multimodal context to build a portrait over time rather than starting cold each session.
College admissions consulting, started from my dorm room and grown to six figures in revenue while I was still an undergrad. Dion works with students across the US and China, and most of its growth came from writing openly about my own admissions process rather than from paid acquisition.
An open reference for the physical AI industry: 108 companies placed across the six stages every robot capability passes through, a research feed that syncs live from the main embodied AI reading list, funding signals, and a primer on the stack and its bottlenecks. Built because existing landscape maps had no column for evaluation and none of them included the current YC batch.
Roughly 100K followers across RedNote, WeChat, TikTok, and Instagram. It began in college with bilingual content about admissions, AI, and building things, and now lives mostly on Instagram from New York. Working in two languages means testing which ideas survive translation, which turns out to be a decent filter for whether an idea is any good.
Notes on AI, consumer product, and building.
I grew up in Fuzhou and moved to Florida as a kid, where my family ran a restaurant. I did everything: cashier, cleaner, cook, running the full operation while juggling school. It taught me a lot about responsibility, resilience, and grit.
I was a first-gen student. Growing up helping my parents with their business made me certain I wanted something of my own one day.
Fun fact: I'm a top 0.5% NYC Beli user, double-jointed, a big believer in going to events and being in the room IRL, and I journal most days.