# Damon Chen

Solo founder of PDF.ai and former Cisco engineer, based in San Jose, California. Acquired PDF.ai for USD 20 thousand in 2023/5, rebuilt it using GPT-4 and bootstrapped it to approximately USD 1.5 million ARR.

Ethnic Chinese.

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