Sunshine Chen

Statistics (Machine Learning) & History @ Harvard

Previously

Investment banking @ Morgan Stanley (article out soon on AI in white-collar industries!)
Training transformer models for newspapers @ Prof. Melissa Dell
Product @ various early-stage companies
- Product / ops @ Thirdlayer (third hire)
- SWE / growth @ Momo (3M users, 250% increase)
- Biz ops @ stealth (secured pilots with Revere City Gov & #2 utility company in the world)

Investments

Scout for Andreessen Horowitz, previously Dorm Room Fund
Angel investor in my amazing friends! Including Engram, Anygraph, Paradigm, Litmus, and Hextrion

Writing

Journalism: Colossus Magazine, Harvard Crimson, Contrary
Academic: Concord Review
Creative: Pidgeonholes, Bennington College
Other: I run a Substack sometimes too where I write about AI

A few other things

In my previous life, I was a (backup) debater for the US national team (aka the development team).
I learned English through Pokémon
I’ve been running a bookstagram for 10+ years
Ask me about 1930s Shanghai, the British Empire, historical paradoxes, the Sagrada Família, and stand-up comedy!

Happy to chat over frisbee or matcha :)

sunshinechen [at] college [dot] harvard [dot] edu