Sebastian Tan

I’m originally from Pittsburgh, but I live in San Francisco. I took a gap year after high school to work at Palantir in New York, and shortly after, I moved to SF to start my own company.

I love hiking, running, and anything outdoors or with friends. Before I die, I wanna learn how to sail and visit every country in the world. My favorite place I’ve been so far is Oxford in the UK. I spent a summer there between my junior and senior year of high school and it was a blast.

In high school, I was the youngest member of the U.S. National Economics Team, which we dubbed “Harvard, Stanford, Sewickley.” I also developed an algorithm that helped thousands of people with criminal records gain meaningful employment.

Now, I code a little, read a lot, and spend most of my time running Formenos, a $25M AI-Native L/S Equity Hedge Fund. We’ve generated exceptional outcomes from making bets that are contrarian and right. After all, positions worth taking are ones you can successfully defend alone.