Rank #158
Edwin Chen
Net worth $18.0B
Artificial intelligence · United States
- Born
- Dec 01, 1987
- Age
- 38
- Source
- Artificial intelligence
- Residence
- New York, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- 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.
- At MIT, Chen researched how to decode an Incan language expressed via knots tied in rope.