Christopher Ma (currently 17)
UofT cs '31, chase asymmetric outcomes
Past
cofounder/CTO of DraftParty, mobile consumer app (17)
$100k+ ARR, 30k+ users, top 40 on the App Store, UGC program doing 20M+ views/mo, in 6 weeks
built everything technical: app, website, backend, db, user data aggregation, internal video editing tools
interned at Geotab, world’s largest commercial telematics provider (17)
youngest intern in company history, built apps used by 5M+ drivers, played with their $50k humanoid robots on the side
interned at SimCare AI (YC S24) (16)
flown out to SF, worked 996, stuff I built was demoed for 6+ fig deals w/ top schools (UPenn, Vanderbilt), almost went homeless
contract web dev & designer (16)
I build websites, 4 figs
cofounded Scripty, platform to automate all mundane tasks (15-16)
first time founding, 300 waitlists, 7M+ views across socials, did some client work, made mistakes but learned
won 1st at the world’s largest highschool business comp, 1/500,000 (16)
Projects
prediction markets for browser agents: web agents choke on niche obstacles that are near impossible to scrape data for. we race 4 agents towards the same task in live browsers while a master agent sabotages the DOM, spectators trade on who overcomes obstacles, and every run becomes fine-tuning data
AI student simulations with real-time video calls and dynamic student personas for better teacher training (best use of ai @ PennApps XXVI, UPenn's Largest Hackathon)
doxxed our judge to win canada’s largest highschool hackathon, built a networking app that face-recognizes strangers and gives you conversation starters (best use of ai @ JAMHacks9)
to learn about neural nets, made a CNN that recognizes hand-drawn sketches from Google’s Quick, Draw! dataset, abused google colab GPUs
former director at Ignition Hacks, 600+ hackers, $16K+ in prizes, hosted hackathons at UWaterloo & TMU
my worldview: have conviction in yourself and your abilities, be willing to fail, chase asymmetric outcomes, and you will be rewarded eventually