Matthew Chen

CEO, Founder @ Laurence | Advertising is a math problem

Founder

Laurence· Winter 2026New York City Metropolitan Area

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @mlaurencechen

2025Founder· Laurence (YC W26)

Founder · since 2025

Company

Laurence (YC W26)

Role

CEO, Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

New York, United States

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Laurence

Hedge fund for ads

Winter 2026

Experience

Career

Laurence (YC W26)
Founder
CEO, Founder · New York, United States · 2025 – Present
2025
Google
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023 – 2025
2023
Meta
Software Engineer · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2024
2024
Array Insights
Software Engineer · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 2022
2022
Process-Energy-Environmental Systems Engineering (PEESE) Lab
AI Research · Ithaca, New York, United States · 2021 – 2022
2021
New York University
Computational Chemistry Research · Manhattan, New York, United States · 2019
2019

Bio

Built the Data Science Agent at Google. Grew Facebook new user retention by 18% by tuning Facebook's friending model. Third engineer at health-tech startup. Math+CS & AI research at Cornell. Ex-national team and semi-pro soccer goalie. Washed dishes and waited tables to pay for college. Financially independent at 17. National team & semi-pro soccer goalie. Taught myself to code at 18. Chemistry research at 15. CEO