Yang Xie

Yang Xie is a serial entrepreneur born in 1996 with a markedly unconventional path. He started coding at age 13, later served as a core hacker at ByteDance, and dropped out of middle school at 14 . At 18 he founded his first company; his identity-cloud startup Authing became a leading player in China's SaaS identity space and was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, one of only 15 mainland Chinese firms so selected, and he made the Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list . In 2025 he launched Fellou, billed as the world's first "Agentic Browser" or action-oriented browser, pivoting into AI entrepreneurship . A 5Y Capital profile framed him and a very different founder—Qin Tian, who left home at 14 to escape domestic violence and built a $6M/year VR game business—as two paths converging on AI's early "wilderness" era, where "opportunity asks no one's background" .