Hi, I'm Wesley. I grew up moving between the Bay Area, Oregon, Taiwan, and Shanghai. My dad spent his whole career in semiconductors, which shaped my early passion for science and tech.
In late 2022, before ChatGPT launched, we started fine-tuning diffusion-based AI models for image generation. That project became Aragon AI. After pivot hell, we raised from Neo and others and grew to become the leading AI headshot generator. We seedstrapped to profitability and are now a broader AI photo platform that has served hundreds of thousands of people.
Before Aragon, I was a software engineer at Microsoft and a few startups. I studied computer science and data science at the University of Michigan, where I did 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 an Ironman triathlon and climbed Kilimanjaro. I appreciate the simple things: a great meal, a hard workout, a slow morning.
My paternal grandfather is a composer and conductor, and my maternal grandfather was a traditional Chinese landscape painter who passed away recently. I grew up playing the violin, though I spent most of my time reading, gaming, and playing sports.
I'm a believer and investor in Anthropic, SpaceX, Neo, and many others. I'm a utilitarian and an optimist, sometimes irrationally so. I prefer positive sum games over zero-sum ones, and infinite games over finite ones.