Most founders are bolting AI onto broken processes and calling it a pivot. This is a pet peeve for me.
I studied Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence at Columbia University (NYC) in 2013 — back when that was a weird niche, not a career move.
Spent 6.5 years trading structured debt at £500m+ balance sheet scale. Learned to make fast, high-stakes decisions with incomplete data.
Then I quit to build yhangry with my co-founder Heinin. No tech network. No warm intros. Just grit and a genuine belief that private dining was broken.
Six years in, we’re YCombinator W22, processing millions in GMV across the UK and US. (Oh and Michael Siebel invested in us personally!)
But the real bet we’re making now is bigger.
We’re rebuilding yhangry from the ground up as an AI-native product. Not AI features — AI agents. This is a generational life changing moment for us.
We’re doing this with a small team, in public, while it’s still hard and messy and the outcome isn’t guaranteed.