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Robert Huynh

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Co-Founder & CEO at Reforged Labs (YC W22)
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Robert Huynh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Reforged Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup building AI tools for the gaming industry. A Harvard Business School dropout, he previously spent nearly a decade at Googles X (the moonshot factory), Waymo, and Microsoft, working on AI for self-driving cars, cybersecurity, and next-generation wearables like the HoloLens.

Outside of his professional life, Robert is a lifelong gamer passionate about titles like League of Legends and StarCraft. He is deeply connected to his heritage, having moved to Vietnam to launch his first startup and actively building a community for overseas Vietnamese professionals. He previously co-founded a frozen yogurt franchise with his family in high school.

Interesting fact: Robert left his Harvard MBA program early, moved to Vietnam during a military lockdown, and raised $1M for a startup that ultimately failed before launching his current company.

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Experience
13 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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AI in Gaming
His current company, Reforged Labs, builds AI-powered creative intelligence and ad-creation tools specifically for mobile game studios to improve marketing performance.
Entrepreneurial Resilience
He embraces a "startup pirate" and "roguelike game" mentality toward entrepreneurship, viewing his first startup's failure as "moonshot compost" for his next venture.
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Career

Work history

6-2023
Co-Founder & CEO
Reforged Labs (YC W22)
2-2021 - 5-2023
Co-Founder & CEO
Nook
8-2020 - 5-2021
MBA Candidate 2022
Harvard Business School
8-2019 - 9-2020
Analytics & Special Projects Lead
Waymo
4-2018 - 8-2019
Business Intelligence Lead
X, the moonshot factory (Project Lantern / Chronicle)
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Education
2020 - 2022
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Harvard Business School
1-2022
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Y Combinator
2008 - 2013
Bachelor in Business Administration; Master in Professional Accounting
Texas McCombs School of Business
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