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