Jason Son

Engineer and venture capitalist
2026(1) COMPANY
I wrote a $10K check and was one of the first wires towards a lab. I am drawn to people with relentless ambition and care about the itty gritty details. I especially love crude ideas.
 at 22. Based in New York City as a researcher and full-stack generalist. I graduated Santa Cruz at 20, and worked previously in San Francisco.
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Paradigm
Working with a portfolio company
Software
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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
Core Services & UI
Software
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ETALYC
2023 - 2024New York City, New York
Full-stack
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
Sequence classification for historical genomic data
Research
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Carnegie Mellon
2022 - 2023Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Neural network for neuron classification and association
Research
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Santa Cruz
2022 - 2023Santa Cruz, California
Built a text-to-video generation pipeline
Research
Provenance

Over the course of 9 years, I started 102 projects, finished 52, and launched 24 of them.

I started off making bots in middle school to buy streetwear and resell (asshole...). They automated the entire process from item to cart to checkout, beating humans and existing bots. Then tried reverse-engineering a ROBLOX hack because I was greedy. The GUI allowed me to spawn only one item at a time, and I wanted a large quantity. I also used to cheat on TF2 with a skin changer I made. I got caught though. I started experimenting with Discord bots for my friend group at this time for anime references (like Mudae!). I tinkered with robotics in high school, first with a computer jukebox for my first love. It was an end-to-end system: 50 RFID cards mapped to songs, an external speaker, and its own separate Spotify account. Each card was painted to her favorite song! In the same year, I made a quick NFC tag that translated everyday news locally and relative cross-country into Vietnamese for my mom (she still uses it!). I was old enough for hackathons then. I won categories at HackDavis and CalHacks, and became a finalist at TreeHacks. I was caught off of the high of building. I started a company named Tokn with my mentor for a social layer over token analytics, similar to Twitch chat for people watching their favorite coin. We got 2K+ users within the first 24 hours. We sold the app.