Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder

Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumnus, Yichen Guo (MBA 2021), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship.



Yichen is an HBS MBA, Class of 2021. After his undergraduate at UC Berkeley, where he majored in statistics, Yichen worked in banking at Citi in NYC. After HBS, Yichen transitioned into the tech startups, working as the head of analytics for Almanac, also founded by an HBS alumnus. Later, Yichen became the general manager for Taiwan at VIPKid and the head product manager for VIPTeacher.

Yichen started CapGo in October 2023 to automate lead generation and market research for startups and SMBs. He is also the winner of the HBS Alum New Venture Competition in APAC.

CapGo is a spreadsheet for the fastest lead generation and market research. Imagine you want to pull a list of 30 companies in your industry, their size, revenue, CEO's contact info, and write personalized emails. CapGo does that for you in one click. It aims to use AI to transform data collection and enrichment, where users can pull and process any data using natural language.

CapGo has won No.1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt and the HBS Alum New Venture Competition in APAC.