hey! i’m eddy xu, cofounder and ceo at build.

we believe that large-scale 3d world data will solve embodied ai.

we’re backed by abstract ventures, pear vc, zfellows, alex botez and other great partners.

i previously:

• raised $120k to build a competition robotics team and won the national signature championship
• won the deca business world championship (200k competitors)
• sold an edtech startup with 178k users in 3 months
• built chess glasses used by alex botez, soft robots at mit, and more

this year, i dropped out of columbia and turned down $25m+ of equity to build. others on the team left academia, top labs, and their own companies to do the same.

we believe:

• the deployment of general robots at scale will reshape society
• the best people should work on the most important problems
• the most beautiful art is created at the research frontier
• the only acceptable speed is as fast as physically possible
• the only challenges worth overcoming are hard
• the magnitude of the opportunities ahead require a delusional ambition
• the success of a company is measured by its research contribution and net-impact

we have the opportunity to do our life’s work!

eddy@build.ai