"The 24-year-old CEO of Interface, a San Francisco startup using AI to prevent industrial accidents, is a white guy with a Caribbean accent and a Chinese last name, a combination he finds amusing enough to mention when he's first introduced to business contacts. Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, the site of substantial oil and gas exploration activity, Young grew up around oil rigs and energy infrastructure because his entire family worked as engineers, stretching back generations to his great-grandfather,"
"It was years in the making. From age 11, Young fixated on Caltech with the intensity of someone much older. He watched shows about Silicon Valley online, mesmerized by the idea that people could build "anything and everything" in America. He did everything possible to secure admission, even writing his application essay about hijacking his family's Roomba to create 3D spatial maps of his house."
Thomas Lee Young grew up in Trinidad and Tobago in a multigenerational family of engineers and was exposed early to oil rigs and energy infrastructure. He founded Interface, a San Francisco startup that applies AI to prevent industrial accidents. Young's multicultural identity and energy-sector roots help him connect with oil and gas executives. He fixated on Caltech from age 11 and pursued creative technical projects like hijacking the family Roomba to map his house. COVID-19 disrupted his visa processing and erased his college fund's market value, prompting him to enroll in a three-year mechanical engineering program at the University of Bristol while maintaining Silicon Valley ambitions.
Read at TechCrunch
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]