Calvin Chen

I'm working on Proximal to help give the world superhuman coding agents.

I'm lucky to feel like I'm doing my lifes work solving an important problem with a team of people I admire. If this problem is interesting to you, we're hiring!

We are backed by top funds and angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, Thinking Machines, xAI, Meta Superintelligence, Cursor and Cognition.

I previously built two software startups and did a short stint at Goldman Sachs crunching numbers. I bootstrapped one of my startups to $1.5M ARR and sold it for $9M.

I studied business and CS at USC, before dropping out for Y-Combinator. During YC, I spent some time tinkering with diffusion models and trained a SOTA diffusion model for virtual try on.

If I'm not working, I read, write, build things, and meet other interesting people. If that's you, say hi.