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21st percentile
Founder & CEO of PutHouse, AI-powered options income platform
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Technical Depth · 41th percentile
- Demonstrated personal technical depth as an engineer at Google and TikTok before founding PutHouse, with a CS degree from USC.
- Identified GitHub account @Janson-Lau with 2 public repos.
- GitHub account created in 2022, giving it a tenure of approximately 3 years — just under the 5-year threshold.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)1,518 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current founder and CEO of PutHouse, an AI options trading platform founded in 2025.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Demonstrated personal technical depth as an engineer at Google and TikTok before founding PutHouse, with a CS degree from USC.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Identified GitHub account @Janson-Lau with 2 public repos.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)GitHub account created in 2022, giving it a tenure of approximately 3 years — just under the 5-year threshold.
What you likely need
You're an early-stage technical founder in fintech/AI with a strong engineering background from Google and TikTok. Your biggest near-term priorities are likely validating product-market fit, finding your first institutional check, and building out a small founding team. Connecting with other pre-seed fintech founders and SF-based angels who back AI-native financial tools would be the highest-leverage use of your time right now.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
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- introsA pre-seed fintech founder dinner in SF to swap early traction learnings with other AI-native financial tools builders.
- fundraisingAn office-hours session with SF-based angels who back AI fintech at the pre-seed stage for warm intro pathways.
- introsA happy hour for ex-Google and ex-TikTok engineers who have gone on to found startups, to share early-stage operator lessons.
- tacticalA roundtable on AI product strategy for solo technical founders building in regulated industries like financial services.
- hiringA workshop on making the first 1–3 hires at a sub-10-person fintech startup, focused on finding mission-aligned early engineers.
- positioningA dinner with founders building in retail investing and options/derivatives tooling to explore distribution and partnership angles.
- hiringA USC alumni founder meetup in SF to tap into a warm network of fellow Trojan-founded startups for co-founder and early-hire leads.