Christopher Jaime Arraya

Chris is a Morehead‑Cain scholar building the future of living in San Francisco and New York.

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Where I’ve Been

• UNC Chapel Hill campus (CH)
• Golden Gate Bridge above the clouds (SF)
• New York City skyline (NYC)

My Story

In April 2024, I decided to take a year off school to go full‑time into building and scaling a startup. Along the way, I’ve:

• Attended the top high school in the country
• Been awarded the oldest merit scholarship in the nation (as a first‑generation college student)
• Won Best AI Hack at the largest collegiate hackathon
• Advised governments worldwide on AI in criminal justice and society

Today, I’m focused on building the future of living—homes that live, breathe, and provide for you.

Philosophy & Vision

“Back in the era of Socrates and Plato, philosophy wasn’t a luxury—it was a discipline rooted in time. Time to think deeply. To question assumptions. To imagine futures no one else could yet see.”

Today, that kind of time still exists—but it’s mostly reserved for the powerful: those who predict, plan, and build what comes next.

“They don’t wait for the future. They shape it in advance.”

Spend time around founders, visionaries, or the truly wealthy, and you’ll notice they think in decades, not days. Their greatest asset isn’t capital—it’s cognitive space: the mental room to zoom out, place bets on long arcs, and think clearly without noise.

In the AI economy, ownership is everything. As automation replaces tasks and decisions, labor loses leverage—but equity doesn’t. In a world where AI builds, decides, and scales faster than any human ever could, the real question becomes:

What do you own?

If more of us had the time to ask that question—and the space to act on the answer—we wouldn’t just keep up with the future. We’d lead it.

Writings

Christopher Arraya
Building the future of living.