Edwin Chen

Edwin Chen

Edwin Chen (#153)

  • $ 18 B
  • Artificial intelligence
  • United States
  • M
  • 38 Years

About Me

Edwin Chen is the CEO of Surge AI, which he founded in 2020 to help companies label data to train AI. Surge generated $1.2 billion in 2024 revenue from customers like Google and AI lab Anthropic. Notably, Surge claims it has not yet raised any outside funding; Chen owns an estimated 75% of the company. Before founding Surge, the Florida native worked for Twitter, Google, Facebook and Peter Thiel's hedge fund Clarium. Chen attended MIT, where he studied math, computer science and linguistics.
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  • #158   Billionaires (2026)
  • #55   Forbes 400 (2025)

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