Rex Yang
I build execution systems for fragmented industries.
Repeat founder working across real estate, AI, software, and business infrastructure.
Currently building Settlyfe, an agentic housing execution platform.
Background
Born in Chengdu, China and moved to the United States at age 11.
Rebuilt through a new language, culture, school system, and work environment.
Completed a U.S. STEM-track high school program with a 4.4 GPA.
Earned a scholarship to UC San Diego.
Studied Real Estate and Development at UC San Diego.
Graduated college in 2.5 years.
Achieved a 3.95 major GPA.
Became a licensed real estate agent at 18.
Worked across real estate sales, rentals, transfers, and client transactions while in college.
Built Alfero Inc., a cross-border commerce company that generated over $1.5M in sales.
Managed sourcing, logistics, pricing, marketplace operations, customer response, and cross-country team coordination.
Built and tested multiple software and business products before Settlyfe.
Admitted to Cornell's real estate master's program.
Dropped out of Cornell to build Settlyfe full time.
Founded Settlyfe Inc. at 21.
Building toward real estate execution infrastructure, including brokerage-related systems.
Work
Settlyfe
currentBuilding the agentic execution layer for housing, where AI coordinates renting, leasing, payments, services, moving, furnishing, and local workflows into one end-to-end system.
Alfero Inc.
Built a cross-border commerce operation from zero to over $1.5M in sales across Asia and North America.
Verkion
Built a lightweight team execution platform for early-stage teams to manage work, memory, ownership, and decisions in one place.
LegitGeo
Built an AI visibility platform helping businesses improve reputation, content, and discoverability across generative search engines.
ThyEssay
Built an education-service business supporting international students with writing guidance, application preparation, and academic support.
Archived Hardware Experiment
Built a small hardware product experiment that failed for technical and market reasons, but sharpened my understanding of product scope, timing, and execution risk.