于红 / Yu Hong

Overview

于红 / Yu Hong is a former investor and the founder of 兔咚咚, introduced in this source through her move from roughly fifteen years in investing toward children’s social-emotional learning.

Current Profile

The bounded source presents Yu Hong as a practitioner linking education, investment judgment, parenting, and personal choice. She describes education as a long-held mission, with investing at 华兴、GGV纪源资本 and 美团龙珠 serving as an intermediate path for capability and influence before she shifted toward education entrepreneurship in 2023–2024.

Her framework is not that AI makes conventional subjects useless. It is that lower information and execution costs make time allocation more important, so children and adults need stronger self-knowledge, emotional literacy, openness, relationship skill, and reflective judgment. Her own career changes and investment mistakes are used as cases of learning by action and honest review.

Key Characteristics

• Treats education as a long-horizon mission rather than a sudden AI-market pivot.
• Connects children’s SEL practice with adult work, investing, relationships, and decision-making.
• Uses emotional experience as evidence for self-understanding without treating emotion as an automatic command.
• Frames choice as experimentation, future direction, value ranking, and review rather than option maximization.
• Values openness and evidence updating alongside intelligence, including the language of testable hypotheses.

Evidence

• Career path: AI 时代，我们到底该学什么？ describes about fifteen years in investing followed by the founding of 兔咚咚.
• Education thesis: AI 时代，我们到底该学什么？｜对谈于红：三种不会过时的能力 presents SEL as self-management, relationship capability, and responsible adaptation rather than emotion control alone.
• Decision method: AI 时代，我们到底该学什么？｜对谈于红：三种不会过时的能力 connects “以终为始,” avoiding peak-negative-state decisions, broad trials, tolerable mistakes, and review through 反思式选择能力.
• Investment method: AI 时代，我们到底该学什么？｜对谈于红：三种不会过时的能力 uses missed deals, long feedback cycles, mentorship, question quality, and prediction review to ground 智识诚实复盘.

Qualifications

This is a source-bounded profile rather than a complete biography or independent assessment of Yu Hong’s investment record, educational product, or research claims. Career dates, compensation tradeoffs, portfolio examples, child-course outcomes, happiness proportions, and neuroscience claims remain attributed to the episode.

What Changed

• Created the profile from the Crossing interview’s account of Yu Hong’s investor-to-education transition.
• Established her integrated framework across SEL, AI-era education, choice, and investment learning.

Relationships

• 兔咚咚 - education product founded by Yu Hong.
• 社会情感学习 - central educational field in her current work.
• 反思式选择能力 - decision framework developed through her career and parenting examples.
• 智识诚实复盘 - investment-learning discipline she advocates.
• 非算法能力 - broader AI-era capability frame reinforced by her argument.
• 十字路口Crossing - podcast context for the source interview.