Richard Ou

Co-Founder of Agorum and Youngest Board Advisor at Penn for AI. Penn '23, King's fellow, met the Queen thrice. Did some AI/ML research.

Born in Nigeria, ethnically Chinese, lived in a few countries, grew up in the UK. Grandfather made me recite the Art of War and Tang dynasty poems at 3.

Started coding and launching apps at 8. Went to Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman's school. CS teacher used to ask me to teach the classes :(. Got an OE award for Innovation and proposing global internet access (pre-Starlink).

Majored in Physics (4.0). Was President of King's Business Club (Founded by Zain Jaffer). King's Fellow. Tried building a few startups. Interned in banking, tech, and consulting. Reneged some offers.

Was at Penn. Raised \$160K for a student conference. Launched a product that made \$700K in the first day. Business Insider wrote about me during graduation.

Launched Agorum. Got into VIP-X. Survived SF on \$10/week and raised a pre-seed solo in 3 months. Agorum is now 5Xing month-on-month.