Edwin Chen is the founder and CEO of Surge AI, the leading human data company powering the leading frontier AI labs. Since founding the company in 2020, Chen has grown it to over $1B in annual revenue in 2024, making Surge AI one of the fastest-growing, successful, and critical companies of the AI era. Under Chen’s leadership, Surge AI has become a critical piece of AI infrastructure, recognized for its unmatched data quality and ambitious vision for AGI. Before founding Surge AI, Chen studied mathematics, computer science, and linguistics at MIT, and held roles at Google, Facebook & Twitter.