Nathan Yan (currently 17)
I make robots go brrrr
Past
interned at Roboflow YC S20 (15), and Ultralytics (16) learning an ungodly amount of computer vision
research at Harvard training AI doctors (16). Left for ↓
cofounded a company building physical AI doctors, got 16k in compute, and almost went homeless in sf (17)
won 1st and 3rd at the largest highschool business comp, 1/500,000,
(16, 15)
Projects
The world’s largest Hackathon database (1k users in 2 weeks)
An Instagram plugin that ruins your social life (most technical hackathon proj)
An autonomous bomb defusal robot (second at a YC hackathon)
A Clash of Clans attack analysis tool (3 million views as a 15 yr old)
traits of humans whom I respect the most: high agency, no shame, good taste, willing to mess up, delusion/conviction in oneself, humble