Yujian Tang

EP 51 I Started r/AI_Agents and Now I'm Launching a VC Fund | Yujian Tang

• Yujian Tang founded r/AI_Agents in April 2023 when AutoGPT was hugely popular and nobody really knew what to call it — then he heard someone float the idea of “agents”. The subreddit sat at roughly 1,000 members for its first year, crept to ~9,000, exploded to 36,000 while Yujian was on vacation in China — and jumped again the following month, reaching nearly 300,000 members with ~2.5 million monthly views. Episode takeaways
• The fund formation paperwork is more bureaucratic than most first-time investors expect: you need a lawyer, separate EINs for both the GP and LP entities, bank accounts for each, and a Delaware address — Yujian used a mail-forwarding service called Stable (~$50/month, recommended by Stripe) rather than flying to Delaware. He skipped the third standard entity (the management LLC) by waiving management fees. Episode takeaways
• Yujian’s deal flow came directly from his event work: he started offering early-stage founders live demo slots after a sponsor no-showed a 30-minute block. Companies like WordWare later raised $30 million, and assistant-ui closed a $4.5 million seed round — both had demoed at his events before raising. Episode takeaways