Tony
Chen

I like building things.

My name 18 year old technology entrepreneur fascinated by startup and hacker culture, computer science (especially artificial intelligence), art, philosophy, open source software, puzzles, and space.

Email: tones@berkeley.edu
Website: tonychen.me
Phone: +852 8170 0420
Location: Berkeley, CA

Profile

Hi, my name is Tony Chen. I am an aspiring entrepreneur with a passion to explore the creative outlet of building technology startups. During my high school years, I have built several highly trafficked magazines, blogs and websites. In 2010, I co-founded a startup called BuzzBlaze, a news reader webapp with an integrated social layer. Currently, I am working on a location-based social network for mobile devices.

I am currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area where I am pursuing a computer science-philosophy double major at the University of California, Berkeley.

Personal Projects

CEO & Founder

BuzzBlaze

Period: April 2010 - May 2011
Fields: News, social networking
URL: www.buzzblaze.com
Key People: Stanley Tang (Co-founder), Louis Kang

Social news reader with built-in dashboard interface and follow system

Private beta launched in February 2011
700+ active users within first week of launch
Featured on The Next Web, Young Entrepreneur and more
Download press release here

Editor-in-Chief & Founder

Looks Good Design Magazine

Period: May 2009 - January 2011
Fields: Design, internet, blogging
URL: www.looks.gd
Key People: Wellington Almeida, Warren Henricus, Stephen Leung, Tim Matthews, Lukas Salomon, Charles Wang

Online magazine on web and graphic design trends originally built at age 15 using PHP and WordPress platform.

2010: 1.8 million pageviews, 560,000 unique visitors and growing
Covered design industry with a focus on web, graphic and industrial design
100+ highly trafficked articles
25,000+ followers on Twitter, 300+ fans on Facebook

Education

University of California, Berkeley '15

B.A. Computer Science and Philosophy

Expected graduation: May 2015. Concentrations and research interests: Computer science, cognitive science (AI in particular), philosophy, entrepreneurship.