Andrew Chen
Chief Executive Officer at Hickory Falls Ventures
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Chen is a CEO and investor who builds and scales technology-driven businesses at the intersection of commerce, hardware, and global impact, currently leading AAA World-Wide and managing Hickory Falls Ventures. He has nine years of hands-on experience shipping products across marine navigation hardware, live-selling e-commerce, global fintech, and streaming, and has led exits and strategic partnerships including Flow Commerce's acquisition by Global-e. A product-focused operator who rose through roles from product leadership to C-suite, Andrew combines expertise in product management, mobile and streaming technologies, logistics, and M&A to turn complex technical domains into scalable businesses. He actively invests in frontier tech and sports franchises—backing companies like Anthropic, Databricks, OpenAI and teams such as Red Bull Italy SailGP and the Paris Musketeers—bringing operator insight to founders. Based in the New York metro area with a Yale economics background and a consulting foundation from Accenture, he often bridges technical product work and high-level strategy in the same week. A less obvious strength is his track record of integrating hardware manufacturing playbooks with software-first go-to-market strategies for capital-intensive industries.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics at Yale University
Chinese, French
Github Skills (3)
jsinterop9
json-data8
json6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
flowcommerce/aws-s3-public
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:10 PRs, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
flowcommerce/json-reference
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
currenciesreference-datajsinteropregionsjson-viewer
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