3x founder

Braden Wong

writing code + prose @ epicenter (YC S25)

Founder

Epicenter· Summer 2025🇺🇸 United States

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2025Founder· Epicenter (YC S25)

Founder · since 2023

Company

Epicenter (YC S25)

Role

Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco, California, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Epicenter

ChatGPT's memory feature in an open, portable format

Summer 2025

Experience

Career

Epicenter (YC S25)
Founder
Founder · San Francisco, California, United States · 2025 – Present
2025
Spur (YC S24)
Founder
Software Engineer · 2024 – 2025
2024
EcoPackables
Founder
Founding(ish) Engineer · 2023 – 2025
2023
Penguin AI
Full Stack Engineer · 2023
2023
Yale Buttery Book
Building Yale Buttery Book (and Other Silly Yale Apps) · New Haven, Connecticut, United States · 2021 – 2023
2021
Center for AI Safety
Machine Learning Safety Scholar · Berkeley, California, United States · 2022
2022
Emerge®
Investor Experience Intern · Marina del Rey, California, United States · 2021 – 2022
2021
Dex
Software Engineer Intern · San Francisco, California, United States · 2021
2021

Bio

At 18, I taught myself to code while studying ethics, politics, and economics at Yale. Since then, I’ve averaged ~10k commits/year and worked at three YC startups. I wrote my 65-page senior thesis on open-source governance and digital platforms. I care deeply about data ownership, open-source, and interdisciplinary thinking. https://github.com/braden-w/ I build tools to help automate the boring parts of my writing. Hopefully, something good comes from it!