Before joining Tenex, CJ attempted several startups, ran an engineering consulting business, worked in traditional engineering, and later shifted to AI consulting and AI-enabled building.

“but I have like a graveyard of startups I tried to start before 10X ultimately culminating in like my own kind of engineering consulting company and I spent some time there doing traditional engineering eventually moved over to doing some of this like AI consulting and just like building more and more with it.”