Extraordinary - Aliens of Extraordinary Ability

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Read stories of extraordinary individuals who crossed oceans to pursue their dreams, including those who were granted O-1 visas and EB-1A green cards.

Braden Boyko

Founder · Beluga

22 Year Old Storyteller
Viral Content Expert with over 2.3+ Billion views across all platforms
Gained 5 Million Subscribers in 5 months
Creator of Beluga (10M+ subscribers on Youtube) and various other channels.
Currently building Extraordinary with @Sigil.

Sigil Wen

Founder · Extraordinary.com

Giving hoodies to extraordinary aliens and investing in the top O.1% of talent
Opted out of M&T @ UPenn to build in silicon valley
Built Airchat with Naval
Actively angel investing ($25k-$100k) in exceptional technology founders through Spearhead

Danielle Fong

Inventor · LightCell Energy

Ph.D in Physics @Princeton at age 17
Forbes 30 Under 30 Energy Standout (2011)
Mentor @Thiel 20 Under 20 fellowship
Currently Founder, CEO, Inventor @lightcell energy
2x United Nations Speaker on Energy Tech Entrepreneurship

Garry Tan

CEO of Y Combinator

President & CEO @ycombinator
Founder @Initialized Capital
Featured on Forbes Midas List
Designer/engineer who helps Founders
San Francisco Dem accelerating the Boom Loop

Jason Liu

Founder · Instructor

Creator of Instructor.
prev. StitchFix, Meta
University of Waterloo Grad

Gill Verdon

Founder · Extropic and e/acc

Jacob Andreou

GP · Greylock

Ali Debow

CEO · Swish

Joanne Peng

Thiel Fellow, Aging Researcher

Based in Princeton and Boston, working on tools and aging in the Boyden lab.
Chief of staff and a research director at the Amaranth Foundation, which philanthropically invests in moonshot longevity and neuroscience research.
Past me conducted research at Ryerson Biomedical Research Institute at MaRS and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, played music professionally in the Regina Symphony, worked on COVID testing at Curative, and explored mathematics at Pearson College UWC.

Jake Adler

Founder · Pilgrim

Sarah Hong

Chief Science Officer

ML Researcher making GPUs go Brr. UofT Grad

Janelle Tam

Growth · Y Combinator

Alexander Wu

Marilyn Ma

Founder · Fleek

Jonathan Xu

CEO · Stealth

neural decoding research | spc, emergent ventures, zfellows, hf0

Sumanyu Sharma

CEO · Hamming AI

Alex Rodrigues

AI alignment research @ Anthropic
Previously: youngest CEO of a public company (2021) @ Embark self-driving trucks; Thiel Fellow
A robot kid who grew up

Bardia Pourvakil

Co-Founder & CTO · GC AI