Kanjun Qiu![]() Kanjun Qiu is the co-founder and CEO of Imbue, an AI research lab.[1][2] Imbue has raised $200M from companies like Nvidia to fund the development of "custom AI agents capable of reasoning".[3][4] Previously, Kanjun was the co-founder and CEO of Sourceress, a machine learning recruiting startup based in San Francisco.[5][6][7] Before Sourceress, Kanjun served as the first chief of staff at Dropbox as the company scaled from 200 to 1200 people.[8] Kanjun is a Sequoia Capital Scout[9] and the co-author of Sew Electric, a book that uses sewing to teach computer science to middle and high school students.[10][11] On December 3, 2019, Kanjun was recognized as the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Featured Honoree in Enterprise Technology.[12][13][14][15] Kanjun studied computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked as a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab[16] and paid her way by writing high-frequency trading algorithms to trade the stock market.[17] Kanjun has spoken extensively on the importance of using hiring strategies that promote diversity in technology.[18][19][20] Personal lifeKanjun founded The Archive, a long-term coliving house near Dolores Park in San Francisco.[21] In October 2018, Kanjun and her fellow roommates appeared on Megyn Kelly Today to explain the inspiration behind the house.[22][23][24] References
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