5x founder

Michael Shang

🧜‍♀️ Human→AI SoulLink | a16z speedrun

Founder

SoulLink· Speedrun 005 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States

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2025Founder· SoulLink

Founder · since 2012

Company

SoulLink

Role

Founder & CEO

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

Los Angeles, CA

current

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

Source: LinkedIn work history

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SoulLink

Build bonds with virtual humans.

Speedrun 005

Experience

Career

SoulLink
Founder
Founder & CEO · Los Angeles, CA · 2025 – Present
2025
Stealth Startup
Interim Advisor · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024
2024
Alibaba Cloud
Founder
Director of Product - Alibaba Cloud IDaaS · Beijing, China · 2019 – 2023
2019
IDsManager
Co-founder
Co-Founder - IDsManager · Beijing, China · 2014 – 2019
2014
Anonymous Taoism Temple
Practice Monkship · China · 2015 – 2016
2015
Chuiser
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CTO · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2015
2015
EmoChart
Founder
Founder · 2012
2012

Bio

Repeat Founder; 1 Exit Post Series-A; Ex-Director of Product; Dropped out from Carnegie Mellon MBA and MSE to build SoulLink - bringing virtual friends mainstream.