Sigil Wen

I'm currently open sourcing the skilled immigration process through extraordinary.club.

I opted out of M&T @ UPenn to build in silicon valley on an O-1 Visa.

I actively Angel Invest ($25k-$100k) 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.
Built and failed to launch Monument. I thought more people could crowdfund their ambitions through crypto. Once I realized it was not viable (Sorry SEC), I pivoted to Serendipity. Backed by Naval Ravikant, Elad Gil, Justin Kan, Founders Inc. and other incredible supporters ❤️
Built Bitswap in hs, a bridge from decentralized social blockchain to Ethereum - couple million in volume. Feat. New Yorker, New York Magazine, Business Insider, etc. Dharmesh publicly offered me $100k for 1% of bitswap I shut it down after the blockchain died

I like to invest $10k-250k and help you recruit talent.

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

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!

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)

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)