Edwin Chen

About Edwin Chen

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.