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Tony Chen

@tonychenAI

Founder and CEO @kleepay, building programmable cards for AI agents. Previously HongShan (ex-Sequoia China).

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Tony Chen@tonychenAI·
We're hiring at @KleePay. We're building payment infrastructure for AI agents and looking for AI-native builders across engineering, product, growth, operations, and internships. You don't need 10 years of experience, but you do need to move fast, learn fast, and figure things out without being told exactly what to do. We care more about proof of work than credentials. Competitive base salary + meaningful equity. DM me your GitHub, X account, portfolio, side project, or anything you've built.
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Tony Chen@tonychenAI·
@tekbog already jumped into 24/7 mode ✅
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terminally onλine εngineer
quit ur 9 to 5 job so u can work in startups 9 to 9 and then quit ur startup job so u can work 24h/7d on ur own startup follow me for more life ruining tips
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Tony Chen@tonychenAI·
@kurissuuu lol we're somehow back to "designers should learn to code" again
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Chris Andrews@kurissuuu·
The ideal designer profile has changed SO much in the last year. I was talking to a design recruiter friend about it—the best companies want effectively a designer who is 60% designer, 40% engineer. Investing in your craft is good, but I’d argue investing in your understanding of the material you’re designing is just as important. And yes…im also getting PTSD from early design twitter topics😉
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Darren Marble@darrenmarble·
Describe being a startup founder in one word!
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Tony Chen@tonychenAI·
We're hiring at @KleePay. We're building payment infrastructure for AI agents and looking for AI-native builders across engineering, product, growth, operations, and internships. You don't need 10 years of experience, but you do need to move fast, learn fast, and figure things out without being told exactly what to do. We care more about proof of work than credentials. Competitive base salary + meaningful equity. DM me your GitHub, X account, portfolio, side project, or anything you've built.
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Pratham Hegde
Pratham Hegde@nullpratham·
here's what i've built: - security research on KV cache compression attack surfaces in LLMs, found targeted eigenbasis perturbations outperform random noise in 90%+ of tested configurations - created a benchmark for 12 LLM-generated web apps across 5 attack classes with a custom CAF metric - Carried out pentest on a several YC startup API's, confirmed critical cross-tenant cache isolation vuln 10/10 times - ZK proof attestation layer for MCP tool execution in agent pipelines - pwn.college Yellow + Orange belt, Green in progress github: github.com/PratGit1606 | prathamhegde.com
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Tony Chen@tonychenAI·
the last 3 months have been a little crazy for me. - left what many would consider a dream job at a top-tier VC - moved to Singapore - became an AI startup founder - quietly raised a few million dollars - built and shipped a beta product with my CTO in a matter of weeks that might have taken much larger teams months still feels like we're just getting started.
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Tony Chen@tonychenAI·
over the past 76 days, our CTO has been building @KleePay at AI-era speed: 14 repos 3,910 commits 1.11M lines added 1.42M lines changed 51 commits/day on average from accounts, wallets, cards, and authorization primitives to cactus integration, GAAP migration, treasury, and redis caching, he compressed what used to look like months of engineering into one intense sprint. AI is changing the surface area of software faster than ever. we’re building accordingly.
KleePay@KleePay

AI agents are ready to act in the real world. Payments need a safer primitive. @KleePay lets agents initiate payments without handling a user’s personal card details, with every transaction bounded by spend limits, merchant scope, expiry, and local authorization. 🤖Join waitlist now: kleepay.ai

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Agam Chaudhary
Agam Chaudhary@agamchaudhary_·
@tonychenAI Incredible journey Tony. Going from VC to founder and shipping that fast shows what focused execution looks like right now. Congrats on the raise and beta.
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Tony Chen@tonychenAI·
the best products don't compete for market share. they create new markets.
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Tony Chen@tonychenAI·
@PVishwak4 he's not active on x, he's active on github lol
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Tony Chen@tonychenAI·
i don't know if AI is replacing jobs. i do know that we received 1,000+ applications within hours of posting a hiring tweet. my inbox is absolutely cooked, doing my best to get through everything. appreciate the patience 🙏
Tony Chen@tonychenAI

We're hiring at @KleePay. We're building payment infrastructure for AI agents and looking for AI-native builders across engineering, product, growth, operations, and internships. You don't need 10 years of experience, but you do need to move fast, learn fast, and figure things out without being told exactly what to do. We care more about proof of work than credentials. Competitive base salary + meaningful equity. DM me your GitHub, X account, portfolio, side project, or anything you've built.

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Tony Chen@tonychenAI·
Tony Chen@tonychenAI

We're hiring at @KleePay. We're building payment infrastructure for AI agents and looking for AI-native builders across engineering, product, growth, operations, and internships. You don't need 10 years of experience, but you do need to move fast, learn fast, and figure things out without being told exactly what to do. We care more about proof of work than credentials. Competitive base salary + meaningful equity. DM me your GitHub, X account, portfolio, side project, or anything you've built.

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Ben Lang
Ben Lang@benln·
Which startups are actively hiring? Reply with company name, career page, location.
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Tony Chen@tonychenAI·
honestly, I think it was an accelerator, not the reason. leaving a comfortable path and going all-in mattered more lol, but environment compounds, being surrounded by ambitious ppl building every day definitely changed the pace of everything.
Femi@fhemiiii

@tonychenAI motivating, i have a question tho, would you say moving to singapore was the main thing for you? or all this would still have happened irrespective of the environment?

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Tony Chen@tonychenAI·
@jacobandreou historically, firms existed bcz coordinating humans was expensive, AI may be the first technology that meaningfully changes that assumption.
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Jacob Andreou
Jacob Andreou@jacobandreou·
Every company will need two forms of capital: human capital (judgment, expertise, creativity, relationships) and token capital (the AI capability it builds and owns): - Human capital will become higher leverage and more valuable. Humans provide the ambition, context, taste, and direction that makes AI useful. - AI strategy is not about choosing the best model. Models will come and go. If changing models destroys your moat, you never owned it. - The real advantage is building a learning loop where human capital continuously compounds into token capital. - The future IP of the firm is its workflows, evals, institutional memory, and agentic systems that improve with every steer and every use. - Every token and human workflow becomes signal. Every interaction makes the organization smarter. The company itself becomes a compounding learning machine. The future of the firm is human capital amplified by token capital. Every company needs a frontier ecosystem where it can own its expertise, compound its learning, and accumulate its own token capital.
Satya Nadella@satyanadella

x.com/i/article/2065…

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rohool_vaki@Rahul1539482·
Built a LangGraph analytics orchestrating SQL, Neo4j, Cube.js, and RAG pipelines, handling 20MB+ context workloads with validation, recovery, and low-latency execution. Also DM'd you. Previously worked at a YC-backed startup, focusing on agent frameworks, MCP workflows, and LLM orchestration. @tonychenAI
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