About Brandon Wang

Hi! I'm Brandon. I’m an entrepreneur, engineering leader, and optimist.

I'm currently cofounding a new company in AI safety. Previously, I cofounded and was CTO of Dreambound, which helps millions of people change careers every year with our search engine for career education. I left the company in my cofounders' good hands at the end of 2024.

Before Dreambound, I studied computer science & data science at Harvard University before dropping out to start Conduit, an AI-driven chief of staff. We automated analysis of emails, calendars, and contacts to build an at-scale relationship graph and analytics tool (but this was before ChatGPT, so this was much harder and not as good). Conduit was acquired in 2019.

Previously, I directed product as hire #1 at StratoDem Analytics, a real-estate data science services company, where I scaled the team and productized our vision. StratoDem was acquired by Altus Group in 2021.

My earliest professional work was in education reform and technology. I made a popular online academic planner; was the youngest employee in Teach For America history; and, from that work, spun out a major nonprofit which provided K-12 extracurricular programs at hundreds of schools from 2012 thru 2020.

I am a high-throughput learner who often gets lost in all his Wikipedia tabs. I wrote my first line of PHP in second grade (some fun stories). I credit so much early curiosity to open-source software and the accessibility of the Internet, where I could contribute and learn without regard for age.

I’m a 2020 Thiel Fellow, a 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient, and a 2018 Interact Fellow. I coauthored a 2015 book on breaking down age barriers. My only degree is my high school diploma from Phillips Exeter Academy, a boarding school in New Hampshire.

I was born in Houston, Texas, and now live in San Francisco, California.