Wally Wang's background combines early machine-learning, computer-vision, and NLP research from 2009-2010, product experience at Microsoft Bing, and academic training across Tsinghua, NYU Stern, and Carnegie Mellon, and he specifically looks for immigrant and expat founders, believing their experience adapting to new countries makes them more likely to take entrepreneurial risks, while also focusing on the underexplored niche of B2B software expansion between the U.S. and Japan/Korea. He's known for early bets on AI companies like Weaviate, Argilla, Array, CAST AI, Fiddler AI, and AppZen, describes AI models as a cheap, AWS-like brain layer that other companies build on top of, and takes an active role in planning exits early, including introducing M&A bankers well before a company is ready to sell.