Recent writing from the founders.
Chuck publishes on Substack about institutions, AI, and the political economy of entrepreneurship. Lijie writes on Medium about engineering practice and the work she's doing in AI infrastructure. Recent posts from both, refreshed automatically.
- Chuck EesleyMay 2026 · Substack
Why we're betting more on teachers ↗
This past December, the Zhou & Eesley Family Foundation ran a program at the Penang Science Cluster in Malaysia. Roughly twenty-five teachers came in for training in AI literacy and design thinking.…
- Chuck EesleyMay 2026 · Substack
ARR Is Not the Problem. The Institutional Vacuum Around It Is. ↗
Last month, Cluely co-founder Roy Lee admitted on X that the $7 million in annual recurring revenue he had given a TechCrunch reporter was, in his own words, “BS.” The actual figure was $5.2 million…
- Chuck EesleyMarch 2026 · Substack
The “In-Box Congestion” Crisis: Why AI Entrepreneurship Needs a Mechanism Design Overhaul ↗
After Gautam Ahuja’s talk on signaling theory, a conversation with Itai Ashlagi, and Tom Mitchell’s presentation on AI history at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, something crystallized: we are…
- Chuck EesleyFebruary 2025 · Substack
The Role of Institutional Trust in Shaping Entrepreneurial Intent ↗
Institutional trust plays a crucial role in shaping economic and entrepreneurial outcomes, yet its effects are often overlooked in discussions about startup ecosystems and policy interventions. Our…
- Lijie ZhouJanuary 2025 · Medium
My first AI RAG with Milvus and Twelve-Lab ↗
This past weekend, I participated “𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗔𝗚 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻” organized by Women and AI . In less than 5 hours, a group of amazing women came up ideas, learned tools sponsored by…
- Lijie ZhouJanuary 2021 · Medium
Spinnaker green/blue deployment cleanup solution ↗
Earlier this year, we adopted Spinnaker as our deployment tool at Gusto. By enabling the green/blue deployment on top of the core Kubernetes infrastructure, we have seen a big improvement in terms of…
- Lijie ZhouNovember 2020 · Medium
Two Years As A SRE ↗
Last month, I passed my two year anniversary working as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Gusto . Several people asked me on Quora what do SREs do and why do people want to become a SRE instead of…
- Lijie ZhouApril 2018 · Medium
Women in Cybersecurity 2018 Recap ↗
2018 Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Chicago I had an amazing experience last month in Chicago to attend 2018 Women in Cybersecurity conference . I got to meet more women and learn about their work. I…
- Lijie ZhouMarch 2018 · Medium
WordPress Blog Got Hacked ↗
I have been running a WordPress (WP) site as a side project for a while. This week, when I opened my site, I found that the site has several blogs that I have never posted. I realized I may have been…
- Lijie ZhouFebruary 2018 · Medium
Virtual credit card number and Google voice ↗
This is the second post of the personal digital privacy series. This post, I am going to share some tools I use to manage my personal digital privacy. Virtual Credit Card Number We are more and more…
- Lijie ZhouSeptember 2017 · Medium
Google knows you better than yourself and what could you do about it? ↗
Many people know that big tech companies know a lot about you, but few understand what it exactly means and what to do about it. As a security professional, I was asked by friends/family about this…
- Lijie ZhouFebruary 2016 · Medium
Why do I choose to get a computer science degree? ↗
A friend of mine at Hackbright asked about career/further study options. She comes from a biology background and is currently working as a junior C# developer. I met her at Hackbright when we both…
- Lijie ZhouApril 2015 · Medium
Why we need more women in computer science? ↗
Why do we need more women in computer science? I had a tough day after being discouraged from a gruppy guy. He made me feel only those smart people belong to computer science. It is my first semester…
- Lijie ZhouJanuary 2015 · Medium
It’s time to build a digital job fair! ↗
I went to the Stanford engineering school job fair today. This is the third job fair I have attended in the past two weeks, and it was surprising to me that how far away the job fair fall behind in…
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