Yang Chen

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Hey! I'm Yang.​ I love investing, advising, and building the startups shaping future of tech.Here is a bit about my background:I was the first person in my family to go to high school, let alone college. I was also the only English speaker in the house. My parents worked from 9am till 2am. That is the whole explanation for most of my childhood. I went to my own parent teacher conferences starting in middle school, signed my own permission slips, and translated the mail. There was no one at home who could explain what a transcript was or why an internship mattered, so every door I have walked through I found by reading about it first and then asking a stranger. Apex for Youth did for me what a family network does for other kids. I would not be here without them. What I got instead of a map was the habit of building one. As a high school freshman I started and ran an international 501 (c) (3), mostly because no one told me I was too young to try. Later I became the youngest researcher on the alternative data team at Balyasny, where the job was finding signal in data nobody had figured out how to read yet. Same exercise every time: no instructions, something I wanted badly enough to r

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