After months in SF, founder moves to Shenzhen, declaring a new founder era
DominiqueCAPaul · x · 2026-10-25
Gael Melen, who spent the past few months in San Francisco, announced he has moved to Shenzhen for the long haul. He argues a new founder era is underway: not "move to SF to build" but "move to Shenzhen to build" — where ideas, engineers, components and factories are all within reach, and the startup world is shifting accordingly.
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