Yao Song / 姚颂
Yao Song is the central guest in 173: 对话姚颂：深鉴、东方空间、再出发，「天才少年」十年后, where LateTalk presents him as a 1992-born continuous hard-tech founder. His path runs from [[TsinghuaUniversity|清华大学]] electronic engineering and Wang Yu / 汪玉’s lab to DeePhi Tech / 深鉴科技, Orienspace / 东方空间, and Striding AI / 正行创新.
The source uses Yao as a decade-long sample of Chinese hard-tech entrepreneurship. His first startup gave him Hard Tech Fundraising and Strategic Acquirer Fit experience; the Xilinx / 赛灵思 acquisition then created a Post-Acquisition Founder Identity problem because financial success did not give him a durable operating mission. Orienspace / 东方空间 added large-project strategy and Chinese commercial-space execution, while Striding AI / 正行创新 is his attempt to build a long-lived company around [[PhysicalIntelligenceSystemStack|physical intelligence as a system stack]].
Key Claims
- Yao says he chooses directions by combining important human problems with personal enjoyment in turning a technical starting point into useful products.
- His Founder Risk Calibration is bounded: he supports going all in with time and attention, but not destroying the option to keep acting if the first attempt fails.
- He sees physical intelligence as more complex than a model or robot body because data, compute, hardware, scenes, remote operation, and product delivery all have to work together.
- He treats transparency around robot demos as a long-term operating boundary, especially when industry videos blur teleoperation and autonomy.
Connections
- DeePhi Tech / 深鉴科技, Xilinx / 赛灵思, and Wang Yu / 汪玉 — first startup and acquisition path.
- Orienspace / 东方空间 and Gravity-1 Rocket / 引力一号 — commercial-space path.
- Striding AI / 正行创新, Physical AI, and Embodied AI — current physical-intelligence path.
- Founder Motivation Evolution, Founder Risk Calibration, Post-Acquisition Founder Identity, and Hard-Tech Direction Selection — founder-pattern concepts grounded by the episode.