Fei Ma · San Francisco Bay Area

Creating
innovation infra
for the AI era.

Fellow at South Park Commons. Founder of Beta University. Previously AI Product at Microsoft.

Stanford MS&E UNC Morehead-Cain Scholar 4,900+ followers

The tallest oak in the forest was once just a little nut that held its ground.

Fellow

South Park Commons

A community of builders exploring what's next — before it has a name.

Founder & Board Member

Beta University

Reimagining innovation. Founded in 2021, stepped into a board role in 2025 as the organization entered its next chapter.

AI Product

Microsoft

AI + M365. Shipped intelligence into the world's most-used productivity suite.

Morehead-Cain Scholar

Morehead-Cain Foundation

The first merit-based scholarship in the United States. Four-year, fully funded. Graduated early.

Stanford University

Management Science & Engineering

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Computer Science · Morehead-Cain Scholar (full ride)

On the relationship game

Ten lessons most people never see

Breakthroughs don't come from effort — they come from people. The right introduction at the right moment can shift your entire trajectory.

People accelerate outcomes faster than effort ever will. Clarity is the true networking skill. Obsession is a signal. Follow-through compounds. Your energy is data. Timing creates leverage.

Relationships scale nonlinearly. Influence outlasts access. The most important networking happens when you're not in the room.

Skip clarity and effort gets wasted. Skip presence and rooms never open. Skip relationships and your ceiling never moves. But when you treat relationships as leverage, not luck — the whole game changes.

Let's talk.

Always open to interesting conversations with builders, founders, and people chasing big ideas.