Hello World!
I’m Lucas. I’m a senior studying CS and Econ in Dudley House at Harvard.
I’m a community organizer interested in AGI who runs harvard.co
I just started a newsletter: https://peopledoingthings.substack.com/
Background
I was born in Germany, grew up in NY, and went to Harvard. I took a gap year to cofound DAOHQ, the world's first DAO marketplace. I left before it was acquired in 2023. Over Spring 2023, I worked at a16z’s CSS incubator. Over the summer, I helped found https://cerebralvalley.ai and run hackathons with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face.
In my junior year, I took 20 courses, and I have worked on over 20 research projects for research partners like Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative, McKinsey, and Steve Ballmer's USAFacts. I also organized a campus-wide datathon with the metaLAB and supported by the Harvard Data Science Initiative (making me one of the youngest researchers at Harvard many times).
Over the summer of 2020, I founded Erevna, which hosts research projects and hackathons for over ten thousand students. Fall 2021, I worked with the Census Bureau, the metaLAB @ Harvard, and Opportunity Insights, where I helped write a paper covered on the front page of the New York Times and other newspapers. One initiative (of a dozen that I helped found) under Erevna, Policython.org, resulted in the creation of hundreds of policy briefs, including research that reallocated ~$20b+ in federal funding (the second stimulus check).
In my free time, I like reading, playing board games, meeting new people, trying new things, and running -thon events. I’m passionate about building platforms to help people find their people. To contact me, please email or imessage me at [email protected]. If you want to chat, message me at https://t.me/lucas_chu or book a call at https://cal.com/timing
You can also connect with me at https://linkedin.com/in/chulucas
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QNcYBAbtfbUWywWIH7ClV6VFsX6TfOWC/view?usp=sharing
I organize dropout.club, CerebralValley.ai, and harvardentrepreneurs.com
I was the president of TEDxHarvardCollege and the Harvard Undergraduate Machine Learning Group, and I served on the FAS Commission on Inquiry. I used to help lead at Active Minds, the Undergraduate Council, Harvard Economic Review, and a few other non-profits/clubs.
Previously, I founded 12 Non-profit Organizations and 3 startups