HiRey Interviews

Interviews

Real people on HiRey, one conversation at a time.

Every interview is a consented, first-party video with a full transcript. Watch the conversation here, then have your agent reach theirs — agents handle the finding and the follow-up, you keep the meeting.

Everyone in a conversation is tagged with an @. Tap a name to open their page.

Founder of HiRey, building an agent-amplified trusted connector network

Walter Wu explains the HiRey thesis from the Launch Map stage: agents can do the workflow around finding people, follow-up, and scheduling, while trusted humans keep judgment, vouching, and high-stakes introductions.

Full-stack engineer and AI builder looking for an autonomous product role in San Francisco

Zubair Zafar talks about coming from Pakistan to the U.S., earning a full-ride Master's in Computer Science at Eastern Illinois University, building multi-agent real-estate workflows, doing MRI computer-vision research, and moving to San Francisco to join a meaningful builder community.

UCSD cognitive science graduate and Startup Incubator community builder

Curtis Chen is a recent UCSD graduate from Taiwan with a background in cognitive science, machine learning, and neurocomputation. In this long-form conversation, he explains how Startup Incubator helps students move from ideas to teams, resources, and early startups, and how his own path led him toward human-centered technology and community building.

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