Eugene Zhou
I build things to find out how they work. Some of them are useful.
The person
I like to know how things work, and that part has not changed.
I studied integrative biology at Cal but didn't want to go to med school. So after graduating, I worked in clinical research for a bit before joining a preclinical lab to get closer to the science. Later, I went back for a PhD in clinical and experimental therapeutics and an MBA at USC, and in my last year of the MBA I worked with startups, VC and PE to get exposure across both sides of early stage ventures.
Today I work in competitive intelligence and AI innovation at a large publicly-traded biotech, where I track what other companies do and tell my team what it means. I stood out by building agent skills and workflow automations with Codex, while everyone else was using ChatGPT to make memes.
None of this was a plan. It is the same curiosity applied to whatever was in front of me, and the projects on this site are that curiosity without a manager.
How I build
I work on several projects at the same time, mainly whichever one is interesting that week. And honestly, I don't feel compelled to finish one before I start another.
The reason is simple: If I build across multiple projects, I can hop to a new one whenever I hit a roadblock on the first one, and new learnings help me figure out solutions for the old problem. Currently, I'm learning to market and sell, while trying to not over-engineer anything and continue to build as a way to hide behind my deficiencies.