Sam Wen
General Partner at Green Visor Capital Management Co., LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Wen is a seasoned technologist and operator with 16 years of experience combining hands-on engineering, hardware tinkering, and startup building. Based in San Francisco, he co-founded Square, founded Volley Travel, and now serves as General Partner at Green Visor Capital, where he has shaped fintech strategy from EIR to partner. He’s led engineering and executive teams as Head of Engineering, interim CTO/CEO, and VP/CTO across startups and SPAC-backed fintech, blending product instincts with low-level technical chops. Trained in electrical and computer engineering, Sam brings a maker’s mindset—he’s as comfortable soldering prototypes as he is defining company strategy—making him effective at vetting technical founders and scaling engineering orgs.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BlairB.S. Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (25)
authentication9
backend9
realtime8
golang7
pocketbase6
audio6
android6
iphone6
cocoa6
debugging6
objective-c6
javascript4
sdk4
plugin2
threshold2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
square/xsfft
Nov 2009 - Jul 2010
Contributions:56 commits in 8 months
xuancongwen/squaremafia.com
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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