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James He

James He

Founder & CEO of Artificial Societies (YC W25), AI researcher specializing in computational social science and behavior modeling

Jul 24, 2026

10:51
So tell us about that, how you've grown that team and how you think about that strategy as well.
10:55
We think of capital as ammunition.
10:58
So we raised just over $5 million at the end of our YC batch back in March 2025.
11:08
But then we stayed to like a core team of four or five people essentially until March this year.
11:16
So for a whole year, we stayed very, very lean because in our philosophy, capital is ammunition.
11:24
Preserve ammunition until when you know where to spend it and then you spend it.
11:28
So for that year, for that 12 months, We were doing different experimental products.
15:30
And on that side too, you said you started off as a behavioural psychologist, you've done research and all of this, but now being the position you are, obviously you're going to have to update so many of your own skills, right? And what part of that journey and your personal development do you think you've improved a lot on now compared to when you first started the business? Where do you think that

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