Connor Hyatt

I'm the founder and CTO of Lunon, the firm rewiring business for the age of AI. We're backed by General Catalyst and SV Angel. I'm also a Z Fellow.

I had brief stints as an Information Systems & AI student at Carnegie Mellon, Data Analyst at Symetra, Founder at Team RobotiX, and Software Developer for LangChain.

My life's goal is to forge my century in intelligence as Carnegie did in steel, and to leave behind the institutions that raise the next. I also enjoy reading, and design.

Timeline

• Ages 21–22: Founded Lunon.
  • We embed forward-deployed engineers inside ambitious companies and turn them into AI-native leaders.
  • Backed by General Catalyst and SV Angel.
• Ages 18–20: Began and dropped out of university.
  • Studied Information Systems and AI.
  • Dropped out with five classes remaining.
  • Started hitting the gym.
• Ages 15–17: Graduated high school.
  • Varsity volleyball and golf, Ski Club president.
  • Fortnite pro, peaked #51 in North America East, in a game with 350M players.
  • Built a 10,000+ following across socials posting gameplay.
  • Won the Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania's Japanese Speech Contest.
• Ages 12–14: Started my first business.
  • Started an Instagram marketplace for rare Fortnite accounts, which sold for up to $500 each. Grew it to 25,000+ followers.
  • Skipped a year of math and joined the gifted program.
  • Became a football kicker and punter.
• Ages 4–11: Began coding.
  • Spent a summer at a CMU coding camp.
  • Placed third in Robot Skills at VEX Worlds.
  • Won the state computer fair for 3D animation.
• Ages 1–3: Won the parent lottery.
  • My mom taught middle school. My dad was a salesman. My short-term goal is to retire my parents.
• Born: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • Learned to walk and talk, went to preschool.

Reading

A few works that sit underneath everything I do:

• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• Zero to One — Peter Thiel
• Ego Is the Enemy — Ryan Holiday
• How to Do Great Work — Paul Graham
• High Output Management — Andy Grove
• Thinking in Systems — Donella Meadows
• How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie

Design

I believe design is a form of empathy. You can't make something good for people without understanding how they think.

Writing

• Build in San Francisco, sell in New York (October 3, 2026): Seven months in San Francisco, a stop in Pittsburgh, and a move to New York. One city is for building. The other is for living, and for selling what you built.
• The semester I left (January 11, 2026): My last semester at Carnegie Mellon, two term project wins, a raise nobody knew about, and why I would rather own the outcome either way.
• Five thousand hours (September 17, 2025): Between 2019 and 2021 I put more than 5,000 hours into competitive Fortnite. Most of that time I wouldn't spend again. The lessons I wouldn't trade.
• Forty-three quintillion (September 12, 2025): I solved Rubik's Cubes for a decade before I ever opened LeetCode. It turned out I had been training for it the whole time.

Elsewhere

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• LinkedIn
• GitHub