Can Zheng is a former entrepreneur turned venture capital investor at Linear Capital who positions himself as a technical person investing in technical founders, evaluating startups by mentally running the whole technical and business flow end-to-end before investing. He has developed a distinctive thesis that AIoT is evolving from simple efficiency tools to full-process optimization that can re-think production methods themselves, and he places unusual weight on backing founders who combine deep industry understanding with AI capabilities rather than treating this dual expertise as just a nice-to-have.