[frontier]
cooking on science @ C5R. stay tuned :)
daisy dai
hi, i’m daisy!
close friends call me daiz.
i grew up in shanghai and studied finance at wharton.
i left school a year ago. now i’m building the future of science @ C5R.
life is short - there are many sidequests to do and more ppl to meet.
plz reach out here.
a short bucket list
reach out if you want to:
- start a tennis group
- upcycle clothes we thrift from haight street
- become dog walkers
- get a driver’s license
- find stores closing down and lowball expensive itemswould love to bargain on an ice cream maker or some nice cashmere
- make scooters go really fast and race
- build a simulator of my childhood on minecraft
- get an honorary degree (might be very hard)
- get a CA realtor licenseexcuse to tour expensive houses with friends
completed / in progress
ski in many places across the globe
open the map’s menu to switch between places i’ve skied at and places i want to ski at.
cover 1,000 miles on a scooter
604 miles down. proof from Spin:
dye my hair different colors
i’ve done green, blue, yellow (bleach), and brown.
next is red :)
learn my grandma’s recipes
her famous hot and sour noodles (酸辣粉).
dumpling making.
host a friendsgiving
especially meaningful b/c many of my high school friends from shanghai don’t have family in the US.
was very wholesome.
and many more.
a few chapters
sf
[data agency]
launched a social platform to 100k users in 5 mos across 30 states.
takeaway: being realistic means lacking conviction. you need irrational optimism in whatever you do to say you tried your hardest.
philly
[alpha]
refined product for a hands-off agentic trading platform.
agents consistently outperformed the S&P 500, but earning people’s trust with their money was much harder.
[b2b]
tackled GTM + product on automating accounting workflows.
shanghai
[narratives]
worked on an AI-generated storytelling app under Musical.ly cofounder. Inspired by character.ai.
[motivation]
cofounded a fitness accountability startup for people to find fitness buddies.
inspired by friends who helped me start my gym journey!