Sigil Wen
@0xSigil
Bringing the world's @extraordinary talent to america | @thielfellowship
I JUST got my O-1 Visa and moved to the US! Here's how I did it as a 20 y/o:
Big personal news… I just got my agent @O1Visa approved! now in SF doing @ycombinator S25 with @thesauravmitra! Give a ping to @0xSigil @extraordinary if you want your O1 sorted!
Watching Evan build a TPU from scratch has been inspiring. Incredibly curious, good hearted, and contagiously enthusiastic!!!!!
looking for my next thing! thinking about dropping out. would love to learn more about opportunities within hardware acceleration or interpretability. dms are open. happy to chat. would love to hear what makes you excited!
Unfathomably based Love seeing @extraordinary companies kill it We grow as they grow
Lovable just crossed $100M ARR in 8 months. Faster than OpenAI, Cursor, Wiz, and every other software company in history. Today we're launching a game-changing update, it reduces the error rates by 91%. Introducing Lovable Agent:
Turns out if you make something people want, they call you an alien of extraordinary ability. Officially O1 ! 🎈 thank you @fenilsuchak @dflieb @garrytan @ycombinator @julianweisser @FedericoNoemie for the support, push & 'aura'. also ty @0xSigil @extraordinary for merch!
This is @extraordinary Honored to have filed your O-1 Visa Anton! We love @lovable_dev
Lovable just raised $200M at a $1.8B valuation led by Accel. This all started unexpectedly with me calling my friend at 6AM to go for a walk. I've never shared this story before: (thread)
mama i made it to sf with o1 - 2 rejected visa's - 2 congressional inquiries - 1 lawsuit - 22k$ - 1 year @0xSigil
Companies/VCs are now paying media roles the same as SWEs Brent is a certified OG in new media- when I was 16, I interned for Brent to help produce Justin Kan's podcast Bullish on @a16z new media
BREAKING: Early TBPN hire @liangsays has been traded to @a16z.
Claimed my hoodie at @extraordinary cc @0xSigil for the great initiative
officially an alien of extraordinary ability :') beyond grateful to have the privilege of building in the greatest country in the world! 🇺🇸👽
absolutely talk to Extraordinary if you want to stay in the US!! i hold O-1 and @0xSigil is fantastic
Every single one of the 11 Meta superintelligence hires is an immigrant who did their undergrad abroad. 7 China, 1 India, 1 Australia, 1 UK, 1 South Africa. 8 are PhD or PhD dropouts in the US. Immigration is key to US AI innovation.
Worth watching if you wanna hear my secrets to going viral or are a Youtuber who wants to move to america!
Helped one of the biggest YouTubers not get deported Meet Beluga (@Beluga1000), a 22 year old genius with 10 MILLION subscribers We jammed on the secrets to going viral after I got him his O-1B @extraordinary artist visa