jia (@jia_seed) / X

jia

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jia

@jia_seed

22. i dream of flying trains. prev. drone research, dropped big tech cur. co-founder and chief existential officer @ jam

San Francisco, CA

Joined February 2024

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@jia_seed
Feb 14
Replying to @jia_seed
@mal_shaik and i are beyond excited to be backed by @FabianHedin (co-founder cto, lovable) @Thom_Wolf (co-founder hugging face), and more... ...devtool founders, engineers, operators, and researchers that we deeply respect from browserbase, together ai, e2b, meta, google,
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@jia_seed
Jul 26, 2025
i’m looking for a non-technical co-founder, whose idea I can build out. they can have 70% equity, and I can have 30%. comment if interested, must be non-technical i prev won hackathons at upenn and princeton, got software engineering offer from disney
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@jia_seed
Jun 10, 2025
wait so many people have a big life-changing opportunity in front of them that naturally plays to their strengths but they aren’t taking it. rant:
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@jia_seed
Aug 21, 2025
i guess i’m going to stockholm on monday lmfao sf -> stockholm life is fun
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@jia_seed
Aug 20, 2025
growing from 0 to 10k followers on twitter in 8 months no bs, sharing the things I learned with the majority of my posts not being selfies, not forcing ppl to comment, and not botting or ai generating posts (thread)
Abdul Rahim Mirani
@rahim_mirani
Aug 20, 2025
Replying to @jia_seed
Tips for twitter please
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@jia_seed
Aug 3, 2025
some people have a life-changing opportunities in front of them but they aren’t taking them (thread)
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@jia_seed
Jun 16, 2025
elon musk and garry tan, live at yc ai startup school -“i didn’t think i’d build anything my technically great, probabilistically it seemed unlikely. But I wanted to at least try” -“ok” bro just gets to the point 😭😭 @ycombinator @elonmusk @garrytan
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@jia_seed
Oct 7, 2025
i'm jia. 9 months ago, i was a 20 year old non-target computer engineering student freshly landed in SF. i had no money, and no one knew my name I walked into a hotpot event on luma, and walked out with my first $7,000 in angel investment the story of how i first hustled
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@jia_seed
Jul 28, 2025
a few weeks ago, I left X to just focus on building two days ago, I randomly decided to come back and post a tweet. It got 800k views one second of effort sparked insane serendipity. ceo of morning brew, whop, vps at zapier, and more. connections and opportunities I never
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@jia_seed
Oct 12, 2025
i was never a quant, won olympiads, or went to a prestigious university for a while, my best credentials were that i was a student at michigan state university and a restaurant chef at culver’s i felt like an asian disappointment and that i let my family down. i still don’t
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@jia_seed
Jun 17, 2025
Live at ai startup school Elon musk: “math and physics are rigorous judges, so i’m used to being in a maximally truth-seeking environment and that’s definitely not politics. So anyway, I’m glad to be back in technology” 4:58pm pst june 16th @elonmusk @garrytan @ycombinator
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@jia_seed
Oct 13, 2025
twitter > linkedin
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@jia_seed
Aug 24, 2025
excited and humbled to have won at the largest and first 24 hour overnight yc hackathon 🏆1st place daedalus $2000 cash , $500 api 🏆1st place browser-use $2000 cash, 1 week stay in marina hacker house and an invite to openai hq! raising the angel round earlier this week had
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@jia_seed
Oct 10, 2025
two years ago, in 2023, I was begging anyone I could to join their hackathon teams after 30 dms, i was rejected by every single team for being inexperienced, so i won the whole category solo this is the story of first finding self-confidence (thread)
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