Jenny Xiao

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  Term Sheet · 14 Jan 2026 · 38 min

  OpenAI Researcher turned VC on what we’re missing on the AI bubble | Term Sheet

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  About this episode

  The artificial intelligence PhD to VC pipeline may seem relatively obvious now but Jenny Xiao, cofounder of Leonis Capital, forged this path well before the AI boom ever started. She left a PhD program at Columbia to join OpenAI as a researcher and, one week after the debut of ChatGPT, she left to…

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