Episode 01: Yijie Feng - Silicon, Society, Scend.ai
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Episode 01: Yijie Feng - Silicon, Society, Scend.ai
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Yijie Feng is the co-founder and CTO of Scend.ai
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(00:00) Photoshop sparks business interest
(02:18) Slipknot website and computer trouble
(03:52) Peter Thiel fellowship weekend
(06:34) Immigrant family risk mindset
(09:12) Discovering computer science fit
(12:06) Grad school and side projects
(14:15) Corporate jobs and Robinhood
(16:48) Gym buddy becomes co-founder
(19:38) Making the founder leap
(22:05) Building Scend for M&A
(24:42) Middle-market private equity customers
(27:06) AI-native research tools
(30:14) Pivoting toward buyer demand
(33:10) Founder-led sales and LinkedIn content
(35:55) Customer meetings and demos
(37:42) Vibe coding skepticism
(40:08) AI hype and engineering reality
(42:04) Entry-level tech challenges
(43:48) AI as a historical shift
(45:16) Pattern matching and human work
(46:15) Why LLMs broke through