Kanjun Qiu

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Kanjun Qiu is the co-founder and CEO of Imbue, an AI research lab. [1] [2] Imbue has raised $200M from companies like Nvidia to fund the development of "custom AI agents capable of reasoning". [3] [4]

Previously, Kanjun was the co-founder and CEO of Sourceress, a machine learning recruiting startup based in San Francisco. [5] [6] [7]

Before Sourceress, Kanjun served as the first chief of staff at Dropbox as the company scaled from 200 to 1200 people. [8] Kanjun is a Sequoia Capital Scout [9] and the co-author of Sew Electric, a book that uses sewing to teach computer science to middle and high school students. [10] [11]

On December 3, 2019, Kanjun was recognized as the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Featured Honoree in Enterprise Technology. [12] [13] [14] [15] Kanjun studied computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked as a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab [16] and paid her way by writing high-frequency trading algorithms to trade the stock market. [17]

Kanjun has spoken extensively on the importance of using hiring strategies that promote diversity in technology. [18] [19] [20]

Personal life

Kanjun founded The Archive, a long-term coliving house near Dolores Park in San Francisco. [21] In October 2018, Kanjun and her fellow roommates appeared on Megyn Kelly Today to explain the inspiration behind the house. [22] [23] [24]

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