#140 Billionaire
Edwin Chen
$18.0B
US
· Age 38
Source of wealth: Artificial intelligence
Industry: technology
Residence: New York, US
{
"bio": [
"Edwin Chen is the CEO of Surge AI, which he founded in 2020 to help companies label data to train AI.",
"Surge generated $1.2 billion in 2024 revenue from customers like Google and AI lab Anthropic.",
"Notably, Surge claims it has not yet raised any outside funding; Chen owns an estimated 75% of the company.",
"Before founding Surge, the Florida native worked for Twitter, Google, Facebook and Peter Thiel's hedge fund Clarium.",
"Chen attended MIT, where he studied math, computer science and linguistics."
],
"about": [
"At MIT, Chen researched how to decode an Incan language expressed via knots tied in rope."
]
}
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