Started coding at age 7 on Apple IIe green screen, and first company at age 11 (became ranked 367 site in the world).- Early hacks under handle “ttol” as a pre-teen/teen: MyAdvantage (hack for AllAdvantage; used by millions), LanCraft (hacked Blizzard's Battle.net; still in use today), nestea2.c (vulnerability that affected all windows, mac, cisco routers, linux, and others), Razor 1911 (wrote installers for the oldest software cracking group), quake 3 engine hacks (received death threats!; also ended up sending John Carmack my source code so he could fix the id Tech 3 engine), scene review, EFNet, AOL Warez, TetriNET, & more.- Startups: napster, i2hub (merged with ConnectU into Winklevoss Chang Group; part of Facebook lawsuit depicted in The Social Network; i2hub battled Facebook's Wirehog service and won -- saga is in zuck's wikipedia), Dropbox (I was in YC interview with Drew and pg), Crashlytics (#1 mobile performance SDK, ~7 billion monthly active devices; acquired by Twitter/X; then acquired by Google; now default on Android), Twitter (GM on dev platform), Fabric (released #1 mobile analytics sdk, Answers; acquired by Google), Digits (my 1st applied AI company; raised ~$100M), Patented.ai (my 2nd applied AI company; helping companies monetize otherwise dead IP assets, litigators to help their clients win, and funds to assess IP using real-world data), and Reasoner (my 3rd ai company; built neurosymbolic reasoning engine for workflows that demand the highest precision and accuracy) - Honors: 40 under 40 (BizJournals), (nominated) Top Entrepreneur of the Year (NEVCA), (nominated) Top Exit of the Year (NEVCA), Most Capital Efficient VC-Backed Exit- Investments: 80x+ angel (with 30+ exits).- Funds: LP in 20+ funds (ie. baseline; Soma; First Round; Lowercarbon; 20vc; Benchmark; M13)- Honors: Top 60 angels (Business Insider, 2024); Top 50 Angel Investors (Fortune); (nominated) Angel of the Year (NEVCA)- Academia: Dropout.- Patents: 20+ (list below but some fun ones are “Live Video Streaming”, now owned by Twitter; “Feature Switching Kit”, "API Manager", and others now owned by Google)- Honors: received Honorary PhD and was Commencement Speaker 2016 (speech was "Hack the System")Storytelling:- Led product, branding, design, marketing: scene review, MyAdvantage, LanCraft, i2hub, Crashlytics, Answers, Digits, patented.ai, Reasoner, also served as Director of Product Marketing at Twitter.- Honors: Emmy Award (associate producer in Jeff Orlowski's documentary, "Chasing Coral"), “Most Innovative Company”, “Most Disruptive Technology”
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Chief ReasonerMind ReasonerNew York, Ny, Us
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Founder & CeoReasoner Feb 2023 - PresentNew York City, Ny, Ushttps://reasoner.com - the reasoning engine for applications that demand the highest precision and accuracy.Under the harshest of conditions for AI (high-stakes litigation where there's zero tolerance for errors and omissions), built proprietary neuro symbolic reasoning engine.Problems solved:- Multi-hop, compound system reasoning- Compound system data portability- Sub-second, multi-thousand data point synthesization- Multi-domain, multi-topic, multi-subject simultaneous analysis- Lossless recall- and many, many more..Built. Deployed. In production.(Reasoner is the reasoning engine that powers all product lines at Patented.ai -- serving top 20 law firms and Fortune 500 companies.)When used, Reasoner enables a new level of intelligence previously thought impossible. ** Benchmarks releasing soon **
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Hacker & InvestorChang Corporation 2010 - PresentNew York City, New York, Ushttps://chang.com -
Co-Founder & Board MemberDigits Dec 2022 - Mar 2024San Francisco, California, Us -
Co-Founder & Co-CeoDigits May 2018 - Dec 2022San Francisco, California, Ushttps://digits.com
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Director Of Product Strategy, ConsumerTwitter Nov 2015 - Feb 2017San Francisco, Ca, UsDuring my last year, I worked on the main consumer Twitter products, helping introduce new features still in use today.After several years on the developer products front, our mobile platform could not be healthier. Crashlytics; the company I co-founded is now part of Twitter. In terms of usage and distribution, it is now #1 in mobile performance. Answers, our analytics solution was just recently ranked #1 most widely used for mobile analytics. Also, our mobile platform Fabric is healthy and growing. I'm proud that we are virtually on all active Android and iOS devices impacting over a billion people daily. In 2017, Google acquired Fabric, including the flagship Crashlytics. -
Director Of Product MarketingTwitter Dec 2014 - Nov 2015San Francisco, Ca, UsLead the product marketing and growth efforts for our Developer platform. This included the positioning and build out of our sites (fabric.io, answers.io, crashlytics.com, digits.com), all product and feature announcements, and leading our growth strategies within the products themselves.
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Global Head Of Developer ExperienceTwitter Apr 2014 - Dec 2014San Francisco, Ca, UsI oversaw all of product -- including design and user experience -- as it relates to Developers and our non-consumer Products. This includes digital experiences via our websites (dev.twitter.com, fabric.io, crashlytics.com, twitterflight.com), product experience across our services and tools (Fabric, Crashlytics, MoPub, Gnip, etc), as well as physical experiences for our live events (Twitter's Flight conference, Apple's WWDC conference, Google's I/O conference, etc).
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General Manager, CrashlyticsTwitter Jan 2013 - Apr 2014San Francisco, Ca, UsAfter the acquisition of Crashlytics by Twitter, I oversaw the product and launch of two additional product lines, Beta by Crashlytics and Answers by Crashlytics.
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Co-Founder & ChairmanCrashlytics Feb 2011 - Jan 2017Cambridge, Massachusetts, UsACQUIRED: In 2012, Twitter acquired Crashlytics for 9 figures - its largest acquisition to date.ACQUIRED: In 2017, Google acquired Crashlytics from Twitter.From day zero and through the day of acquisition, and beyond, I focused on the core product, ux design, user growth, and product marketing. -
Associate ProducerChasing Coral Mar 2015 - 2017Boulder, Co, UsAcquired by Netflix.100% Rotten TomatoesEmmy Award Winner 2018, Audience Choice Award, Sundance 2017Shortlisted for the 2018 Academy Award for Best DocumentaryCoral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers, and scientists made it their mission to discover why and to bring stunning imagery of this undersea drama to the big screen. Chasing Coral is a landmark documentary that follows the team's progress and setbacks, and reveals, for the first time, what is really happening to the world's precious reef ecosystems. -
Hacker (Personal Projects)Wayne Chang 1996 - 2002New York City, New York, UsLanCraft - Utility downloaded hundreds of thousands of times that lets Warcraft 3 players online using the LAN feature and bypassing Battle.NET. Written in 2002.Instant Profiler - First AIM dynamic profile service. Written in 2001.Q30wnerz - Proof of concept software that showed severe vulnerabilities in Quake 3. Affected all games based on the engine. Worked with Id Software to patch it. Written in 2001. http://wayne.to/eVh2m6NapsterHelp Protocol - Written in March of 2001, during the aftermath of filename filtering. http://wayne.to/eldKa6Gibbed.net - Online gaming news network. Also created a special plug-in for Rocket Arena 3 featuring team radar, team variable system, and timers. Year 2000.Tribes 2 - Linux testing team for this ahead-of-its-time and still extremely fun game. Has since been released for free. If you look closely in the credits, you'll find my name and call sign: Wayne "ttol" Chang. 2000. http://wayne.to/hMh6iPQ.U.B.E. - Quake Universal BSP Editor was the first map editor for the Quake 3 engine. Written in 1999.IRC Operator - irc.colorado.edu, was the oldest server on the largest IRC network, EFNet. IRC was the breeding ground for all the old school hackers "back in the day". 1996-2001.Nestea2 - Proof of concept software that demonstrated a severe vulnerability in Windows, Linux, BSD, Palm devices, Cisco routers, Printers, etc. Written in 1998. http://wayne.to/elC3AJ Reality Check Network - Worked with the team in the popular electronic magazine. 1996-1997.TetriNET - Helped launch and build this great community in 1997. Helped with TetriNET 2, a centralized version, subsequently.
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Head Of CommunityNapster Aug 1999 - Sep 2000Seattle, UsAt the time, created the largest online persistent community (Napster was ephemeral — once you logged off, you had no identity. Spearheaded the effort to change that, which resulted in the largest online community at the time.) -
Founder & CeoScene Review News Network Feb 1998 - Aug 2000ACQUIRED.Ranked 367 in the world by Alexa (gap.com 404, craigslist.org 414, walmart 538, nike.com 754, fedex.com 886).
Wayne Chang Education Details
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University Of Massachusetts AmherstBusiness -
Haverhill High SchoolHigh School
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