Jason Son

Engineer and venture capitalist
2026(1) COMPANY
I invest in consumer-facing apps or artificial intelligence labs.
at 21. Based in New York City as a researcher and full-stack generalist. I was previously at Santa Cruz and in San Francisco.
AntecedentsDiscipline
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Independent Design
2025 - PresentBrooklyn, New York
I currently create brand identities and digital experiences for ambitious founders.
Creative
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Apple
2024Cupertino, California
I worked on the CoreOS team, focusing on various parts of the operating system and user interface when changes were made in the Settings app for the release of iOS26.
Software
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ETALYC
2023 - 2024New York City, New York
I worked on Hypersafe, a platform for traffic engineers to analyze incident data. I worked on everything from front, back and data. I cut hefty production processing from 2 minutes to averaging sub-10 seconds, and impl. memoization to handle 10K+ HTTP requests with a 99.6% cost drop.
Software
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Stanford
2023 - 2024Stanford, California
I founded Polyglot, a language learning app. Polyglot participated in Stanford Launchpad. I co-founded Tokn, a social cryptocurrency analytics platform, owning all technical work. Exited in a multi-six acquisition.
Product
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Seoul National
2023 - 2024Seoul, South Korea
I trained a sequence classifier on previously labeled genomic data to replace a manual labeling pipeline.
Research
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Carnegie Mellon
2022 - 2023Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
I built a baseline scalable neural network using Rust to interpret variably scabled neurological data for the Neuro Technology and Engineering lab.
Research
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Santa Cruz
2022 - 2023Santa Cruz, California
I helped build a prompt-to-video pipeline, experimenting with the film industry to produce Version 0 prototypes under Dr. Allen.
Research