About Paul Gu

Paul had completed 3 years of credits at Yale University when he decided to pursue the Thiel Fellowship. He and his co-founder, Eric Mckay, have a deep interest in questions of efficiency and in using market principles to make life better. Paul has previously worked for D.E. Shaw & Co., several social enterprises, and a few start-ups. He has always liked to take initiative on building things, whether it was making a simple website in high school to share advice with younger students, or writing himself a program to do research on investment ideas during his sophomore year at Yale.