Kanjun Qiu

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Kanjun Qiu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sourceress, a machine learning recruiting startup based in San Francisco.^[1][2][3]

Prior to Sourceress, Kanjun served as the first Chief of Staff at Dropbox as the company scaled from 200 to 1200 people.^[4] Kanjun is a Sequoia Capital Scout^[5] and the co-author of Sew Electric, a book that uses sewing to teach computer science to middle and high school students.^[6][7]

On December 3, 2019, Kanjun was recognized as the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Featured Honoree in Enterprise Technology.^{[8][9][10][11]} Kanjun studied computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked as a Graduate Researcher at the MIT Media Lab^[12] and paid her way by writing high-frequency trading algorithms to trade the stock market.^[13]

Kanjun has spoken extensively on the importance of using hiring strategies that promote diversity in technology.^[14][15][16]

Personal life[]

Kanjun founded and lives at The Archive, a long-term coliving house near Dolores Park in San Francisco.^[17] In October 2018, Kanjun and her fellow roommates appeared on Megyn Kelly Today to explain the inspiration behind the house.^[18][19][20]

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