Kanjun Qiu

Kanjun Qiu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sourceress, a machine learning recruiting startup based in San Francisco.[1][2][3]

Prior to Sourceress, Kanjun served as the first Chief of Staff at Dropbox as the company scaled from 200 to 1200 people.[4] Kanjun is a Sequoia Capital Scout[5] and the co-author of Sew Electric, a book that uses sewing to teach computer science to middle and high school students.[6][7]

On December 3, 2019, Kanjun was recognized as the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 Featured Honoree in Enterprise Technology.[8][9][10][11] Kanjun studied computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked as a Graduate Researcher at the MIT Media Lab[12] and paid her way by writing high-frequency trading algorithms to trade the stock market.[13]

Kanjun has spoken extensively on the importance of using hiring strategies that promote diversity in technology.[14][15][16]