Hi, I'm Wesley. I grew up moving between the Bay Area, Oregon, Taiwan, and Shanghai. My dad dropped out of his PhD and has spent his 40+ year career in semiconductors, which shaped my early passion for science and tech.
In late 2022 (before ChatGPT), a former colleague and I started fine-tuning open-source AI image models to improve photorealism and identity preservation. That project became Aragon AI. After numerous pivots, we raised from Neo and seedstrapped to profitability. In two years, we grew to become the most popular AI headshot company, with 2M+ users, a $10M+ revenue run rate, and a team of just 10. We later expanded into a broader AI image generation platform and sold to the Fortune 500. In mid-2026, I decided to exit the company; my co-founder succeeded me as CEO.
Before Aragon, I was a software engineer at Microsoft and at a few early-stage startups. I studied computer science and data science (math and statistics) at the University of Michigan, where I did applied AI research, led their competitive ML team, and wrote a paper on paths from AGI to superintelligence in 2017.
More broadly, I care about health, relationships, and building good systems and routines. I've finished a full Ironman triathlon and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. I appreciate the simple things: a great meal, a hard workout, a slow morning.
My paternal grandfather is a nationally known composer and conductor in China, and my maternal grandfather was one of China's leading landscape painters. I grew up playing the violin, though I spent most of my time reading, gaming, and playing sports.
I'm an LP in Neo and an investor in Anthropic, SpaceX, and many other startups. I'm a utilitarian and an optimist, sometimes irrationally so, and I prefer positive sum games over zero-sum ones.