Career

Chief Reasoner
- https://mindreasoner.com - First Precision Intelligence application: "Simulate any mind. See every future."
- https://reasoner.com - The Precision Intelligence Engine powering mind blowing applications.
Chief Reasoner / Mind Reasoner
Wayne Chang is a serial entrepreneur, hacker, and angel investor, currently serving as the Chief Reasoner at Mind Reasoner, his third AI company. He is best known as the co-founder of Crashlytics, a mobile performance SDK acquired by Twitter and later Google, and for his early involvement in the tech scene with companies like Napster and i2hub. Chang is also a prolific angel investor with over 80 investments and 30+ exits, and holds an Honorary PhD.

Chief Reasoner
- https://mindreasoner.com - First Precision Intelligence application: "Simulate any mind. See every future."
- https://reasoner.com - The Precision Intelligence Engine powering mind blowing applications.
Hacker & Investor
https://chang.com

Co-Founder & Board member
Co-Founder & Board member

Co-Founder & Co-CEO
https://digits.com

Director of Product Strategy, Consumer
During my last year, I worked on the main consumer Twitter products, helping introduce new features still in use today.
After several years on the developer products front, our mobile platform could not be healthier. Crashlytics; the company I co-founded is now part of Twitter. In terms of usage and distribution, it is now #1 in mobile performance. Answers, our analytics solution was just recently ranked #1 most widely used for mobile analytics. Also, our mobile platform Fabric is healthy and growing. I'm proud that we are virtually on all active Android and iOS devices impacting over a billion people daily. In 2017, Google acquired Fabric, including the flagship Crashlytics.

Director of Product Marketing
Lead the product marketing and growth efforts for our Developer platform. This included the positioning and build out of our sites (fabric.io, answers.io, crashlytics.com, digits.com), all product and feature announcements, and leading our growth strategies within the products themselves.

Global Head of Developer Experience
I oversaw all of product -- including design and user experience -- as it relates to Developers and our non-consumer Products. This includes digital experiences via our websites (dev.twitter.com, fabric.io, crashlytics.com, twitterflight.com), product experience across our services and tools (Fabric, Crashlytics, MoPub, Gnip, etc), as well as physical experiences for our live events (Twitter's Flight conference, Apple's WWDC conference, Google's I/O conference, etc).

General Manager, Crashlytics
After the acquisition of Crashlytics by Twitter, I oversaw the product and launch of two additional product lines, Beta by Crashlytics and Answers by Crashlytics.

Co-Founder & Chairman
ACQUIRED: In 2012, Twitter acquired Crashlytics for 9 figures - its largest acquisition to date.
ACQUIRED: In 2017, Google acquired Crashlytics from Twitter.
From day zero and through the day of acquisition, and beyond, I focused on the core product, ux design, user growth, and product marketing.

Associate Producer
Acquired by Netflix.
100% Rotten Tomatoes
Emmy Award Winner 2018, Audience Choice Award, Sundance 2017
Shortlisted for the 2018 Academy Award for Best Documentary
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Hacker (Personal projects)
LanCraft - Utility downloaded hundreds of thousands of times that lets Warcraft 3 players online using the LAN feature and bypassing Battle.NET. Written in 2002.
Instant Profiler - First AIM dynamic profile service. Written in 2001.
Q30wnerz - Proof of concept software that showed severe vulnerabilities in Quake 3. Affected all games based on the engine. Worked with Id Software to patch it. Written in 2001. http://wayne.to/eVh2m6
NapsterHelp Protocol - Written in March of 2001, during the aftermath of filename filtering. http://wayne.to/eldKa6
Gibbed.net - Online gaming news network. Also created a special plug-in for Rocket Arena 3 featuring team radar, team variable system, and timers. Year 2000.
Tribes 2 - Linux testing team for this ahead-of-its-time and still extremely fun game. Has since been released for free. If you look closely in the credits, you'll find my name and call sign: Wayne "ttol" Chang. 2000. http://wayne.to/hMh6iP
Q.U.B.E. - Quake Universal BSP Editor was the first map editor for the Quake 3 engine. Written in 1999.
IRC Operator - irc.colorado.edu, was the oldest server on the largest IRC network, EFNet. IRC was the breeding ground for all the old school hackers "back in the day". 1996-2001.
Nestea2 - Proof of concept software that demonstrated a severe vulnerability in Windows, Linux, BSD, Palm devices, Cisco routers, Printers, etc. Written in 1998. http://wayne.to/elC3AJ
Reality Check Network - Worked with the team in the popular electronic magazine. 1996-1997.
TetriNET - Helped launch and build this great community in 1997. Helped with TetriNET 2, a centralized version, subsequently.

Head of Community
At the time, created the largest online persistent community (Napster was ephemeral — once you logged off, you had no identity. Spearheaded the effort to change that, which resulted in the largest online community at the time.)

Founder & CEO
ACQUIRED.
Ranked 367 in the world by Alexa (gap.com 404, craigslist.org 414, walmart 538, nike.com 754, fedex.com 886).

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - Business

High School
High School
Core technical, leadership, and investment competencies derived from a career spanning hacking, serial entrepreneurship, and prolific angel investing.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Neurosymbolic Reasoning
Machine Learning Algorithms
Semantic Analysis
Cybersecurity
Python
Mobile Applications
Performance Tuning
Angel Investing
Venture Capital
Fundraising
Strategic Partnerships
Early-stage Startups
Portfolio Management
Patent Litigation
Product Management
Product Marketing
Business Strategy
Entrepreneurship
Community Building
Branding & Identity
User Experience (UX)
Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Technology, Venture Capital, Enterprise SaaS
Cybersecurity, FinTech, Digital Media, Consumer Internet
Serial Entrepreneur, Hacker, Visionary, Dropout, Prolific Investor
Precision Intelligence, High-Stakes Workflows, System Hacking, Value Creation
58.0K followers
A summary of Wayne Chang's career, focusing on his entrepreneurial ventures, major exits, and angel investment portfolio.
He is the Chief Reasoner at Mind Reasoner, his third AI company, which he founded in February 2023.
Wayne Chang is a prolific angel investor with over 80 investments and more than 30 portfolio exits.
Yes, he was involved in the early tech scene with companies like Napster and i2hub.
He was involved with Digits from May 2018 until March 2024, serving in various capacities.