Siqi Chen
CEO at cfo.ai
About
I'm founder and CEO of cfo.ai, and I led product at Zynga through its IPO.
Experiences
- CEO at cfo.aiBuilding an AI CFO that watches the business 24/7
I started Runway after my CFO said Sheets was the only tool. Ari now flags churn spikes and cash gaps before you ask.
- Chief Product Officer at Sandbox VRHelped raise $68M for a company no one wanted to fund
I moved to Hong Kong after one zombie demo. We wrote the a16z deal on an In-N-Out napkin. In COVID, I fired myself.
- VP of Product and Growth at PostmatesFroze over a finance term my own team tracked
I'd built and sold 3 companies and still felt I wasn't a real businessperson. So I leaned into product and avoided finance.
- Co-founder at Serious BusinessSold our game studio to Zynga and ran product to IPO
Serious Business raised $5M and grew to a profitable 40 people. At Zynga I led product through the 2011 IPO.
- Y CombinatorBecame YC's first dropout to chase a viral Facebook app
Friends for Sale turned Facebook into a market where you traded friends. It grew many times bigger than Twitter.
- PowerSetEarned the nickname FB Millz from a side project
My Facebook version of Mafia hit 100,000 daily users while I maintained it alone, making $3,000 a day in ads.
- NASA JPLWon a Space Act award for Mars rover vision work
At NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab I worked on machine vision for the rovers, and was the award's sole recipient while in school.
- Early lifeCoded a Minesweeper clone as a kid
Coding my own version of Minesweeper was where it started, long before Facebook games and VR arcades.