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EP12June 8, 202600:53:17

Taxi Driver by Night, AI Startup Founder by Day (Cantonese)

Jacky Man
Co-Founder, Mastermock

Jacky Man (文子軒) — Co-Founder of Mastermock (mastermock.com), an AI question generation platform for educators. HKU double-degree student in BBA (Entrepreneurship) and Engineering (Computer Science). Drives taxi part-time to sustain his startup. Won a HK$300K government startup grant through competitive pitching. Previously managed a 10-person team before learning the hard way that a lean 2-person team ships better.

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Chapters

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 1:54Meet Jacky — HKU double degree, single and available
  3. 2:40Mastermock, government grant & driving Uber
  4. 4:14Why CS — how GPT 3.5 changed everything
  5. 5:59AI question generation — what Mastermock does
  6. 6:46Agent AI & Operator — the iPhone 1 analogy
  7. 9:50Is HKU's AI training really that good?
  8. 10:48Will AI replace jobs? — graduating into uncertainty
  9. 14:42AI can't replace the handshake
  10. 15:48From 10 employees to 2 — lean startup lessons
  11. 20:10The girlfriend search — dating apps in HK
  12. 26:25Band 2 school to HKU — study tips
  13. 33:00Top 1% professors — use their office hours
  14. 34:51Design thinking & entrepreneurship at HKU
  15. 37:07Thick skin — surviving 30+ pitch rejections
  16. 50:45Helping teachers save four hours a week
  17. 52:41Outro

About This Episode

Jacky Man (文子軒) is a 22-year-old HKU double-degree student who co-founded Mastermock — an AI-powered exam question generator that helps teachers save four hours a week on paper-setting. He drives a taxi at night to fund his zero-revenue startup, pitched his way through dozens of rejections to land a government grant, scaled from ten employees down to two (and got better results), and still finds time to hunt for a girlfriend. A raw, honest look at what it's like to be young, broke, and building in Hong Kong's AI scene.

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