Yao Song

“"There was a teacher who summarized it perfectly — he said life has two states: boring and suffering. It's just a question of which you can tolerate less. For me, I cannot tolerate boring."”

“We got a very attractive offer. In the end we accepted it. From my personal perspective, at that time I was maybe 25–26 and came from a salaried family — the number was definitely attractive.”

“The moment of our first successful launch — Gravity-1 in early 2024 — that was definitely my happiest moment.”

“Striding AI: Founded with strategic shareholders Charoen Pokphand Group (正大集团) and Wingtech Technology (华勤技术) to build system-level physical intelligence with day-one international deployment capability; 70 employees, ~$100M Series A completed.”

“Rather than immediately launching a second company after selling Deephi (深鉴科技), Yao spent three years systematically mapping every adjacent frontier — laser lidar, brain-computer interfaces, controllable fusion, quantum computing, commercial rockets — by joining Coatue (经纬) as a venture partner.”