Bill Yu
Partner, Early Investor at Beacons
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Yu is a Partner at ESO Fund with a decade of technical and investing experience helping startup employees monetize and exercise equity, and participating in early rounds of notable YC-backed companies like Copy.ai, Magic, and Zerion. He began his career as a software engineer and application analyst building high-throughput transaction and government systems, bringing a practical engineering lens to investment decisions. With a BS in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins and early work creating intro CS curricula for life-science students, he blends analytical rigor with a talent for translating technical complexity to nontechnical stakeholders. Based in New York, he focuses on late-stage employee equity opportunities and pre-exit liquidity solutions, often bridging founders, employees, and capital in creative ways. An autodidact coder who signals enthusiasm for rapid skill growth ("Bootcamp + CS = 🔥"), he pairs hands-on technical credibility with deal-making acumen.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityHigh School, High School at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Spanish, Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
svg10
3d10
augmented-reality9
javascript9
webgl9
canvas9
virtual-reality9
webxr8
webgpu8
socket6
automated-tests6
redirect6
vim6
nodejs6
psql6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jholman/gfx-fnd-tests
Nov 2016 - Jul 2023
Automated tests for Graphics Fundamentals lectures
Contributions:5 PRs, 1 comment in 6 years 8 months
automated-teststestingfundamentalsgraphics
Jedeu/photon-ai
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:156 commits, 28 PRs, 106 pushes in 14 days
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