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TK Kong
@tkkong
Building something new. Previously @RampLabs, founder/CEO @VenueHQ (backed by Sequoia, acq by Ramp). Tennis fan. πŸ‡°πŸ‡·
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    TK Kong
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    Apr 21
    I’ve started a new company with @philhchen! Phil built frontier LLMs across research & engineering at OpenAI, DeepMind, and Scale. I was shipping AI experiments at Ramp Labs. We've been heads down building personalized AI coworkers for every business. We’re growing our team
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    TK Kong
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    Jan 28, 2021
    Designing at Robinhood
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    TK Kong
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    Mar 15, 2023
    This is @gdb’s resume. He dropped out of Harvard/MIT to be the CTO of Stripe for 5 years. Now, he’s the President of OpenAI. Insane.
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    TK Kong
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    Aug 22, 2025
    It’s easier to raise a $5M seed round than hire a decent founding engineer
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    Dec 18, 2021
    it's time to buidl, drop your ens πŸ‘€
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    TK Kong
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    Oct 14, 2022
    Crazy how engineers get paid $500K/yr and they spend half their time waiting for β€’ Code to build β€’ Tests to pass β€’ PRs to be reviewed
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    TK Kong
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    Oct 19, 2022
    Ramp, Rippling, Replit, and Retool will be generational companies of the next decade. Incredible density of talent.
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    TK Kong
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    Aug 12, 2025
    hey, wanna be a founding designer at my startup? we have no taste but we keep hearing ux/design is the biggest differentiator in the ai slop era. btw we're going to give you less equity than the next ten engineers we hire tho. i promise, we're going to be so design-driven, you
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    TK Kong
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    Sep 7, 2025
    I swear some engineers have better UX intuition than product designers
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    TK Kong
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    Oct 26, 2022
    11 years ago, I immigrated from South Korea to the United States This past summer, I became a US citizen πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ And today, my co-founders and I wrapped up the @Sequoia Arc program
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    TK Kong
    @tkkong
    Sep 7, 2022
    Some bittersweet personal news ~ After 2.5 years, this is my last week at @tryramp. I joined Ramp as Employee #20 in March 2020 and saw the company scale to over 400 employees and an $8.1B valuation. Here are some of my takeaways and what's next for me πŸ‘‡
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    TK Kong
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    Jul 11, 2025
    If I was @vladtenev, I'd buy Wealthfront with all stock. HOOD is +150% YTD and Wealthfront is sitting on $80B in total assets. Wealthfront's latest private valuation was ~$2B. Seems no brainer to me to acquire Wealthfront and cross-sell Gold sub, better trading UX, IRA, card.
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    TK Kong
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    Oct 21, 2022
    If you’re a VC, yes I’m building an AI company
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    TK Kong
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    Sep 8, 2021
    new @tryramp nyc office come work with me β€” we’re hiring for eng, design, marketing, sales, ops & more!