Edwin Chen

Edwin Chen is the founder and CEO of Surge AI, a San Francisco-based data annotation company he founded in 2020 and has grown entirely without outside investment. Before starting Surge, Chen worked as a machine learning engineer at Twitter, Google, and Facebook. He is best known for building Surge into one of the world's largest AI data labeling businesses, with reported revenues exceeding $1 billion, by specializing in high-quality human feedback for training large language models.