About us

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🌏 WorkOptional.ai is the global authority on East/West AI. Outside China, half the AI revolution is invisible.

We read both sides of the AI race, the noisy West and the subtle East. We tell the people betting on AI what to build on and what to back before the market catches up.

🔬 Research · 🎓 Educate · 💰 Invest

We host regular meet-ups, masterclasses, and working sessions. We help enterprises transform. And we are writing our second book, The Ten Commandments of Investing in the Age of AI, the follow-up to our Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-seller.

Your hosts:

San Eng. Institutional investor, $500M+ deployed. Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of The Ten Commandments of Investing (#10Cs). Founder of SabaiHealth, an AI health companion. He builds in public every day as iki24.

Alvin Foo. Former Google and Huawei operator, early-stage AI investor. One of Asia's most-followed AI voices, 500K+ on LinkedIn. Co-author of the second book. Based between Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai.

Dr. Felix Arndt. Professor and Eyton Director of the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship at the University of Waterloo. He brings academic rigor and proprietary research to the group. Co-author of the second book.

Builder, executive, allocator, or simply AI-curious. Join us.

How to plug in:

📩 Subscribe free to East/West AIpha, our weekly investor brief. Both halves of AI in an 8-minute read, every Tuesday. Subscribe now and get our Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-seller, 📚 The Ten Commandments of Investing, free for a limited window: www.workoptional.ai
🧠 Follow San's daily quest to build his Second Brain on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sanster

Automate Work, Amplify Life.

Collaborations and partnerships: iki@workoptional.ai

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