Wilson focuses on vertical AI applications. Previously, he was an operator who started new business lines and helped scale global companies through IPO.
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At Square, Wilson helped scale the growth and retention team and built an internal marketing product to retain enterprise accounts and 2+ million customers processing $50B payment volume. At DiDi, he was a founding member of their global food delivery product, which scaled to hundreds of millions of gross bookings. At Cloudkitchens, he was a founding member and GM for mobile kitchens and he acquired businesses to drive retail expansion.
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Wilson experienced the leadership of Jack Dorsey and Travis Kalanick, seeing firsthand how exceptional talent networks are built and scaled. Inspired by the “Square mafia,” today he’s fine-tuning that approach for “AI Mafias” by identifying top builders spinning out of leading AI companies and research labs. He accelerates their learning by sharing his network and lessons from iconic companies’ early days of hiring, building products, and scaling go-to-market.
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Growing up in LA, he was inspired by the entrepreneurial grit of his parents. He started Fish Sauce, a podcast sharing the stories of Asian American founders and investors to inspire others to find their own secret sauce. He holds an MBA from Harvard and a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from USC, where he advises their school of engineering. He enjoys playing basketball, and while others play for awards, he plays to earn the right to eat too much.