Sigil Wen

I'm currently helping the top O.1% extraordinary talent come to america on the O-1 Visa through extraordinary.com. It's imperative that America attracts and retains the best worldwide talent to ensure its economic and technological dominance.

I opted out of one of the most selective undergraduate program in the world (M&T @ UPenn) to build in silicon valley on an O-1 Visa.

I actively Angel Invest in exceptional technology founders through Spearhead, training under Naval Ravikant.

In pursuit of Great Work while learning how to Work Hard and Focus.

Past Endeavours

• Launched Airchat with Naval. Built the viral invite loop and AI products. Recruited most of the engineering team. Acquired.
• Built Serendipity PRM (2,000+ MRR in 14 days). Was invited to Stripe, interviewed with Patrick & John Collison where I become the :blistering-intensity: emote in the Stripe Slack among other memes. Naval told me Serendipity was not venture scalable, and my talent's were best used elsewhere so I joined Airchat.

Essays:

• Ego
• Exceptional
• Productivity
• Great Questions

Angel Investing & Advising:

I'm an active angel investor and advisor in companies including:

• Air.chat (advisor, acquired)
• Friend.com (advisor)
• Kerna Labs (1st check)
• Ethched.com (SPV)
• Synex Medical (SPV)
• Dench, YC W24 (1st check)
• coframe.com (Advisor - hired 1st eng from MIT)
• arcade.ai (Growth Advisor)
• And more!

Fun Projects:

Trying to be less distracted with side projects. I'm learning Rust rn, but primarily code in Swift, TypeScript, Python, Kotlin and Java/p>

• WatchGPT2: GPT2 running locally on my Apple Watch Ultra 2
• Dream with Vision Pro: Text to 3D AI generation in Apple Vision Pro built with VisionOS, Scale AI spellbook, and OpenAI Shape-E. Built @ Scale's Generative AI hackathon in SF, won the Scale AI prize 😼 https://twitter.com/0xSigil/status/1680447930732515330?s=20
• Diffusion Craft: I ported Stable Diffusion into a Minecraft Server, allowing you to generate anything you imagine in MC!

Videos

• I made the #1 video on getting the O-1 Extraordinary Ability Visa. It's easier than you think! If you need help on this, feel free to DM/email me :)
• I learned Calculus in 5 days and 350,000 people spent 25,000 hours watching it.
• The Protein Folding Problem placed finalist for Breakthrough (ft. 100 hours of After Effects + lil bro w/ green screen)

Socials

• Twitter: @0xSigil
• Instagram: @sigil.wen
• Youtube: Sigil Wen
• Github: Sigil-Wen

Reading Log (Note: I realized I've been reading wrong. With a completionist mindset. For Validation. Bear with me as I learn how to read)