Founder Festival: Alex Chao's Profile

Welcome, Alex Chao

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Founder99

88th percentile

Investor0

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#243 on Leaderboard

AI product leader at ByteDance Seed, founder of Fide AI

• Professional:Serial Founder

Credibility

this founder typical founder (50th pct)

Technical Depth · 87th percentile

Actively shipping: 11,133 GitHub contributions in the last year (104 commits, 26 PRs, 1 review).
10,999 private/restricted GitHub contributions in the last year — ships code daily in private repos.
Active builder with 75 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
Top package 'tiny-cookie' has 69 direct npm dependents (deps.dev).
Maintains 'tiny-cookie' on npm with 224K monthly downloads across 29 packages.
Verified GitHub account @alexchaomander with 75 public repos.
Identified npm maintainer with 29 published packages.
GitHub account active for ~12 years (created 2013).

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95%bytedance.com ranks #7,158 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
95%6,018 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
95%Verified GitHub account @alexchaomander with 75 public repos.
95%GitHub account active for ~12 years (created 2013).
90%Actively shipping: 11,133 GitHub contributions in the last year.
90%10,999 private/restricted GitHub contributions in the last year — ships code daily in private repos.
90%Active builder with 75 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
90%Identified npm maintainer with 29 published packages.
85%Top package 'tiny-cookie' has 69 direct npm dependents (deps.dev).
85%Maintains 'tiny-cookie' on npm with 224K monthly downloads across 29 packages.
80%Current founder and Executive Director of Fide AI, an AI research and evaluation lab.
75%Also founder and host of the Humans of AI Podcast.
55%Identified researcher on OpenAlex with 41 published works.
45%OpenAlex research profile shows h-index 16 and 1,438 citations.
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What you likely need

You're an AI research and product leader currently steering ByteDance Seed's frontier work while also founding Fide AI at the intersection of AI safety and faith. The most valuable Festival gatherings for you right now are small, high-signal rooms with other frontier-model product leaders, AI evaluation researchers, and thoughtful voices on AI + ethics/faith. Prioritize events that sharpen Fide AI's positioning and connect you to peers building evals and agent infra.

Would you attend these IRL Festival events?

We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.

introsA closed-door dinner with product leads from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and ByteDance Seed to compare notes on agent evals and reasoning benchmarks.
positioningA positioning roundtable for Fide AI with founders of other AI-safety and evaluation labs (METR, Apollo Research, AI & Faith) to sharpen the narrative for faith-facing AI standards.
introsA GraphRAG + Semantic Kernel alumni happy hour to reconnect with ex-MSFT OCTO collaborators now building agent infra startups.
tacticalA hands-on workshop on frontier evals (BrowseComp, MMMU, Humanity's Last Exam) with the researchers behind those benchmarks.
positioningA live Humans of AI podcast taping at the Festival with a Tier 1 AI researcher guest to grow the show's audience.
tacticalAI & Faith office hours with theologians and ethicists to pressure-test Fide AI's first benchmark before launch.
introsAn Ex-Uber ATG founder dinner to reconnect with former colleagues now founding robotics and autonomy startups.
wellbeingA small-group founder wellbeing walk on balancing a big-company operating role (ByteDance) with a nascent nonprofit lab (Fide AI).