hi! i'm eddy xu, founder of build, a public benefit corporation dedicated to solving physical labor.
to start, we are scaling the largest egocentric dataset by orders-of-magnitude. we think we can get very far by learning from humans. we recently announced $1M dedicated to research/compute grants for academic researchers. if Egocentric-1M is useful to your research, please reach out for collaboration!
before build, i:
- dropped out of high school
- won the vex robotics national signature championship
- won the deca business world championship
- sold an edtech startup with 178k users
operating principles:
- the purpose of life is to be useful
- believe in deep learning
- play for the extreme upside scenario
- courage is the first virtue
- you can just do things
- extreme ambition
- extreme optimism
- if you care about someone, give feedback
- celebrate wins
- slow = die
- don't cope
- outlier outcomes require outlier effort
- lean in and take ownership
- say what you truly believe
- focus on priority zero
- everything is figureoutable
there is so much to build!