San Francisco writer, speaker and developer community lead. I lead developer community and events at GMI Cloud and run its equity-free startup accelerator (SCALE at GMI), with VC partnerships including Accel, a16z speedrun and The Residency. Before that: API products and a data marketplace at Goldman Sachs, and an AI assistant for creators at Jellysmack. Harvard, B.A. Statistics.
Speaking: panels, firesides, keynotes, workshops and emceeing. Recent stages include GMI Summer Signal '26 at the Exploratorium (co-emcee), GMI Signal '26 Launch Day (panel moderator), the YC AI Startup School yacht gala (emcee), All Day AI (speaker) and SF Tech Week. Talks: developer programs that convert, running AI events people show up for, how AI infrastructure companies win founders early, and the nonlinear career.
Writing: satire and short fiction in Points in Case, Slackjaw, The Belladonna, Robot Butt, Feign Lit and others; a novel in progress about San Francisco founders.
Contact: hi@yuqihou.com