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James Jiang

Founder

Founder at MSPilot

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedMSPilot · YC

About

James Jiang previously worked as a software developer at Amazon. He is now building MSPilot to apply AI to human potential.

Founder at MSPilotYC F25

Intro paths

YC

James went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Aaron Epstein, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran MSPilot's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, James can intro founders to MSPilot's investors below.

MSPilot's investors · 1

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Co-founders at MSPilot

PLPaul Li
Paul LiFounder

Experience

  1. MSPilotCo-Foundercurrent2026 — present
  2. OpenBuilder (YC F25)Co-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  3. Revenue Operations AllianceMember2026San Francisco Bay Area
  4. EasyCodeCo-Founder2023 — 2025
  5. PersonaboCo-Founder2022 — 2024
  6. DreamCraftersFounder2020 — 2022United States/Canada
  7. Mirage VRCo-Founder2016 — 2019Ontario, Canada
  8. AmazonSoftware Developer2017Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  9. Amazon Web Services (AWS)Cloud Engineer2016San Francisco Bay Area

Skills & more

Scheme5Functional Programming4Object Oriented Programming6MIPS Assembly4Dependency Injection1GWT1MVC1Gradle3Virtual Reality (VR)1Augmented Reality (AR)1Game Development1Java23
+12 moreSQLC#CC++JavaScriptLinuxGitSpring FrameworkSeleniumJUnitMavenHibernate

Languages Cantonese · English · Mandarin

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Frequently asked questions

Who is James Jiang?
James Jiang previously worked as a software developer at Amazon. He is now building MSPilot to apply AI to human potential.
Where does James Jiang work?
James Jiang is Founder of MSPilot.
What companies did James Jiang found?
James Jiang founded MSPilot.
Where did James Jiang go to school?
James Jiang studied at Y Combinator; Stanford Continuing Studies (Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning, AI); University of Waterloo (Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.S)).

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Paul LiFounder at MSPilot

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Paul LiFounder at MSPilot

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