Prince
Yuvraj Kumar
As a kid I played chess for England and competed in mathematics olympiads. At 19 I became the youngest investor at Entrepreneurs First, then went up to Oxford to read mathematics. I dropped out in my first year to work on microagi full time.
Writing
Path by age
- 00Born in New Delhi
- 03Moved to London
- 07Taught myself to code. Malware, first.
- 12Team England, World Youth Chess Championships
- 15Top 50 nationally in mathematics olympiads
- 16Offers from Britain's best boarding schools, on financial aid
- 17PROMYS Europe, six weeks of number theory at Oxford
- 18Rationality camp, full scholarship
- 19Youngest investor at Entrepreneurs First, then up to Oxford
- nowLeft in first year. Building at microagi full time.
Record
- Team England — World Youth Chess Championships
- British Chess Championships — winner
- PROMYS Europe — top 30 in Europe, six weeks at Oxford
- ASPR — rationality camp, top 30 globally, full scholarship
- British Mathematical Olympiad — round 2 distinction, top 50 nationally
- Maclaurin Olympiad — silver, top 50 nationally
- Pareto Fellow
Work
- microagi — full time
- Bluedot Impact — Def/Acc operator, helping people start AI safety companies
- Soda.io — growth, backed by Hummingbird and Point Nine
- Entrepreneurs First — talent investment, originally invited as founder
Built
- Varsity Hackathon — Oxford vs Cambridge, founder and director, $20,000 raised
- Def/Acc, AI Security — hackathons organised with Bluedot Impact
- Intrvue.ai — AI interviewer for 11+ admissions, revenue in a week
- ProtocolML — real-time fraud detection for telecoms
- Founderyoke — matching for co-founders
- Gramira — instant LLM text correction in any text box
- Volution — air-allergen sensors, a team of nine, I was CEO
- Papers — fractional linear transformations, China's environmental policy
Elsewhere
- Recurse Center — programming retreat, New York
- ARBOx3 — machine learning alignment research bootcamp
- Optiver European Chess Championship — finals, the only player still at school
- Y Combinator AI Startup School — flown out to San Francisco