How to Break into Silicon Valley Featuring Kyle Wong - Founder of InstaAgent
InstaAgent (YC P26) is an AI-native marketing company that helps B2C companies turn a single campaign brief into hundreds of personalized social media creatives.
By combining AI-powered content creation, distribution and performance feedback, InstaAgent enables brands to test more ideas, move faster and continuously improve campaign performance. The company reached $1M ARR in 10 months since launch and has worked with more than 500 brands.
In this fireside, learn from Kyle:
How did Kyle break out of Hong Kong and got into YC?
The hardest lessons building from outside the Valley and biggest lessons learned being in the latest YC batch
Hard truths Hong Kong founders must face with fundraising and growth
What investors actually look for in founders from Asia
The decks, intros, and traction that actually worked
Meet Kyle Wong
Kyle Wong is the co-founder and CEO of InstaAgent. Before founding InstaAgent, he co-founded a mobile gaming studio that acquired more than one million users in a month through paid social media. That experience gave him firsthand insight into the challenges of producing high-quality, personalized marketing content at scale and ultimately led to the creation of InstaAgent.
Prior to entrepreneurship, Kyle spent eight years at Goldman Sachs covering China Tech companies. He graduated from Cornell University.
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