Josef Chen
@joseflchen
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ceo @kaikaku_ai | ex austrian military & teppanyaki chef
London, England
Joined September 2022
3 patent filings, 20+ granted design rights, and 2500+ Onshape commits. Like SpaceX, we developed every component from scratch = 90% cost savings. Built in a few months by 3 engineers locked in a room with no sunlight in the middle of London. Stress-tested daily in a live
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Josef Chen (@joseflchen) Founder and CEO of KAIKAKU (@KAIKAKU_AI) on how they've become one of London's best selling restaurants on Google Maps. The answer: A one way mirror from his office into their live open restaurant. "We've got a list of hundreds of learnings, a backlog
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Dr. Eric Verdin, CEO of @BuckInstitute : "We have the information to help people live better longer...why is that information so sealed off?" This is exactly why we made Forever Young. Click on the link in bio to stream it today.
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Look i'm not saying @joseflchen is Ray Kroc...but has anyone ever seen them in the same room?
Ronan Chambers (@Ronanchamberss) made similarities between Ray Kroc (made @McDonalds successful with the franchise model) and Josef Chen founder and CEO of KAIKAKU (@KAIKAKU_AI). Here's how Josef is building KAIKAKU: "Our version of that would be, we own the tech that is so
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Josef Chen (@joseflchen) Founder and CEO at KAIKAKU (@KAIKAKU_AI) explains why they're building to elevate human experience rather than automating everything. It's clear from our conversations that the best founders know that the delta in today's AI slop age is human craft and
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We went from 23% of global manufacturing output to 1.5% by 2025. Pls fix.
The UK is a great country with an extraordinary history. Our stagnation is real, but it's fixable and worth fixing. Enjoyed giving this talk at @lfg_uk last week and so encouraged by the optimistic responses I've had from people who are building a brilliant future for Britain 🚀
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This is my nephew. One of the first phrases he said was “vertically integrated hardware to efficiently scale new era restaurants” - great moment for him seeing @joseflchen live on air with @etnshow
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Fleet dashcams for commercial vehicles. Full integration with telematics for video exceptions, driver coaching and accident video. Live view. In &/or Out recording.
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Every great civilisation faces a moment when renewal becomes a question of survival. The West has reached that point. After three years of work, this is my magnum opus - a framework for what comes next: The Integration Age. https://t.co/iFeTltxV8b Time to rebuild the real.
theintegrationage.com
A deep analysis of macro trends and strategies to reindustrialize the West through vertical integration - a convergence of technology, geopolitics, and economic feasibility.
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BREAKING: Josef Chen (@joseflchen), Founder & CEO of KAIKAKU (@KAIKAKU_AI ) will be joining the etn. boys this Thursday at 11:30AM BST.
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50% there
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I believe I have achieved Nirvana 😌 I have found inner peace.
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Back in April, we spoke to Josef Chen @joseflchen, founder of KAIKAKU, a robotics startup automating restaurant operations in London. Josef, who grew up working in his parents' restaurant in Austria before moving to the UK, has witnessed firsthand how British engineering talent
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Funding headlines come and go. Being seen by millions of engineers daily is the deepest form of recognition for us.
94 days. 20k components. 50k robotic movements. Just 3 engineers. Already serving thousands of bowls. So proud of my team! Time to buy them comfier sleeping bags.
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94 days. 20k components. 50k robotic movements. Just 3 engineers. Already serving thousands of bowls. So proud of my team! Time to buy them comfier sleeping bags.
Just featured on our login page: a modular, parametric bowl-dispensing robot built by engineers of KAIKAKU using Onshape. 👉🏼 What do you think of this design? 🔗 https://t.co/j0aQRSYBhP
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Bitcoin and Ordinals can both be viewed as conceptual art. Bitcoin explores the concept of digital ownership. Ordinals, the concept of immaterial objects. @OnChainMonkey (OCM), expressed through a distinctive PFP, is conceptual art created around the question of how far one can
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Since writing last year I’m so excited to see more top engineers building hardware in the UK 🫡
Massive hardware talent arbitrage in the UK. Here's my braindump on why cracked oxbridge imperial grads struggle to acc in this country. Let's build. https://t.co/HYXQ6jhnjR
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Visualisation: https://t.co/D1PrikZRim Password: KAIKAKU Live Demo: https://t.co/i6hvdodWLS
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Announcing the world's first AI foundation model for flavours. Scientific flavour pairings and exploration like a Michelin-Chef. Trained on 1M+ recipes and chemical compounds. Open visualisation access available now:
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So many top top tier European founders are shipping hard right now. The ecosystem is reaching escape velocity
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Public relations taught me to spin the truth. Law taught me to hide the truth. Only creative writing allowed me to tell the truth.
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